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Add MS 10112
- Record Id:
- 032-002107895
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002107895
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x000150
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162936961.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 10112
- Title:
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Inventory of paintings and statues belonging to King Charles I, 1639
- Scope & Content:
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Inventory of paintings and statues belonging to King Charles I, 1639. Compiled by Abraham van der Doort, artist and curator (1575x85-1640). Contains details of 40 paintings and 12 statues, originally held in the King’s Chair Room, in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall. With an index of items delivered to van der Doort.
f. 1r: Title: ‘The Booke of the Kings 40 Pictures and 12 Statuas [sic] placed at this time in the Kings Chare roome in the privy Gallory the perticulers whereof as followeth’.
ff. 1r-11r: Inventory of 40 paintings, with descriptions, materials, artists and details of provenance.
f. 12r: Title: ‘Here are specified the Kings Statuas which are at this time placed in the aforesaid Chareroom standing in the 2 severall windowes being in nomber 12’.
ff. 12r-13r: Inventory of 7 statues, with descriptions, materials, artists and details of provenance. Described as ‘7 statuas in the first wondowe in the said Chareroome’ (f. 13r).
ff 13r-14r: Inventory of 5 more statues, with descriptions, materials, artists and details of provenance. Described as ‘In the second windowe 5 statuas more in the said Chareroome’ (f. 13r).
f. 15r: Unfinished title: ‘An Index or Catalogue of all such ymplements and other things in the said Chareroome Being noe’.
ff. 16r-17r: Inventory of items, including furniture and chimney items. With a note ‘Theis are all the implements which were left in the Chareroome when the King himselfe delivered the key to his servant van der doort But concerning the keys of the Cubboardes they are as yet not delivered to mee’ (f. 17r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002107895
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002107895
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162936961.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1639
- End Date:
- 1639
- Date Range:
- 1639
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 349 x 215 mm.
Foliation: ix + 17.
Binding: Post 1600. Royal arms and cypher dated 1639. Rebacked 1947.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Abraham van der Doort, artist and curator (1575x85-1640): former owner.
Richard Heber, book collector (1774-1833): his sale, February 1836 (lot 487).
- Publications:
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List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1846 (London: British Museum, 1843) p. 13.
Jerry Brotton, The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and his art collection (London: Macmillan, 2006).
Enriqueta Harris, ‘Velasquez and Charles I: Antique Busts and Modern Paintings from Spain for the Royal Collection’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 30 (1967), 414-420.
Francis Haskell, ‘Charles I’s Collection of Pictures’, in The Late King’s Goods: Collections, Possessions and Patronage in the Light of the Commonwealth Sale Inventories, ed. Arthur MacGregor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 203-231.
Oliver Miller, ed. ‘Abraham Van Der Doort's Catalogue of the Collections of Charles I’, The Walpole Society, 37 (1958-60).
Claude Philips, The Picture Gallery of Charles I (London: Seeley and Company, 1896).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)