Van der Doort c.1639

Rottenhammer

little Venus and Cupid, with another child and 2 satyrs

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 77, № 7
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
0ft 5½in x 0ft 6in (13.8 x 15.2cm)
Medium: 
oval copper
Light: 
light from the left
Frame: 
black frame the inner part cut into an oval
Provenance: 
Sir William Murray, one of your majesty's bedchamber
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought/acquired
Hang notes: 
by the said landscape (no.7) hangs this little piece
Location: 
Room description extended: 
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number: 
Windsor MS., f. 4
Charles II inventory c1666: 
Whitehall, no 355, 13 x 10
Identification certainty: 
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51