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VIII.—Remarks on a Portrait of the Duchess of Milan, recently discovered at Windsor Castle, probably painted by Holbein at Brussels in the year 1538. By George Scharf, Esq., F.S.A., in a Letter addressed to the Earl Stanhope, President

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

George Scharf Esq.
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I beg to lay before the Society a few notes on an historical portrait, which I was so fortunate as to discover recently at Windsor Castle, and the original of which Her Majesty has been most graciously pleased to permit to be exhibited to the Society this evening.

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Archaeologia , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , 1866 , pp. 106 - 112
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1866

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References

page 107 note a See Fine Arts Quarterly Review, vol. ii., p. 326.

page 108 note a Lord Herbert's “Life and Reign of King Henry VIII.,” printed in Kennett's History of England. Fol. 1706. Vol. II. page 214.

page 108 note b Page 72 note, of Dallaway and Wornum's edition.

page 109 note a Litta, Famiglie Celebre Italiane, volume i. Attendolo-Sforza, Medals illustrative of Tavola vi. No. 12. The Duchess is represented in profile to the right with the legend CHRISTIERNA. DVC. MED. On the reverse, a Pine apple, with FRANC. SFOR. SECONDI VSOR round it, and date 1533.

page 109 note b Cremona da Antonio Campo pittore e Cavalier Cremonese. Folio, 1585, page 107. The head is spiritedly engraved within an oval border inscribed + CHRISTIERNA DANIAE REGIS FIL. FEANC. II. SFORTLÆ VX. The face is seen in three quarters, to the left, wearing a close cap covering the ears, and a small portion of the hair on each side at the temples. A white dress covers the bosom and terminates at the neck in a plain turn-over collar. A fur trimming passes over her shoulders. The portrait is inscribed, “E cavata la sua effigie da un quadro à oglio che è appresso à Don Antonio Londonio Presidente del Magistrate ordinario di Milano.”

page 110 note a Beauties of England and Wales, published in 1813, “Nottinghamshire,” vol. xii. page 344.

page 111 note a State Papers, vol. viii. pages 6 and 7.

page 111 note a Ib. vol. yiii. page 16.