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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
Having in the course of last autumn received permission to examine and make sketches from the vast collection of pictures at Windsor Castle, I gladly availed myself of this opportunity, to examine as thoroughly as possible the very fine and authentic series of early portraits which some of the private apartments contain.
page 245 note a A Catalogue and Description of King Charles the First's capital Collection of Pictures, &c, now first published from a MS. in the Ashmolean Musæum, transcribed by Mr. Vertue. Published by W. Bathoe, 1757.
page 246 note a No. 1 of the British Portrait Gallery Catalogue.
page 248 note a A flat board for writing or painting, an expression still used in Scripture, as, the Tables of the Law, and retained also by the Italians in the word Tavola.
page 249 note a Carter's Specimens, pl. xiii.; Dresses and Decorations, &c, by Henry Shaw, F.S.A, 1843, vol. ii. pl. 73; also lithographed separately of a large size.
page 249 note b A portrait of Prince Arthur is mentioned in King Charles's Catalogue, which I have been as yet unable to identify; it is catalogued under “little heads, most of them painted without hands, upon board, much smaller than life:”—” No. 47. The sixteenth being Prince Arthur in his minority, in a black cap and golden habit, holding in his right hand a white gilly flower, in a red golden frame. Length lft. 11in., breadth 7in. A Whitehall piece.” This may be a portrait of Prince Arthur mentioned in the catalogue of Henry VIII., but not described.
page 249 note c Walcott's Westminster, p. 136.
page 249 note d See Archæological Journal, vol. xii. p. 356.
page 249 note e Winston, Hints on Glass Painting, p. 180, note.
page 251 note a No. 2023 of the Catalogue of the Loan Collection at the South Kensington Museum, 1862.
page 251 note b See Beltz, Memorials of the Order of the Garter, page 408.
page 252 note a There is an engraving of this in Anstis, Register of the Garter, vol. I. p. 268.
page 253 note a Described in the catalogue of Mr. Magniac's collection, by J.C.Robinson, F.S.A., under No. 193; exhibited in the Loan Collection at South Kensington, 1862.
page 254 note a This date is not quite accurate, as Henry VIII. was born June 28, 1491, and did not enter his 55th year till 1545; the same error may be noticed in No. 12 of this list.
page 256 note a See Catalogues published by Bathoe, page 15, No. 97, and page 31.
page 257 note a The above is quoted from a MS. copy in the Royal Library at Windsor, vol. II. page 42, No. 199.
page 258 note a See ante, p. 7. A fine portrait of her as Duchess of Milan is at Arundel Castle, and her portrait as Duchess of Lorraine was engraved by Agostino Carracci.
page 258 note b Nagler, Kunst. Lex. vol. I. p. 505; and Bartsch, viii. p. 294, No. 91, 2. In the portrait of the Queen the same kind of ermine sleeves may be noticed that are to be seen in the two youngest children.
page 258 note c Univ. History, p. 246.
page 259 note a xv. yere of Hy. 8. Hall's Chronicle, page 657. See also State Papers of Henry VIII. vol. VI. p. 155–8.
page 260 note a Lord Orford's Works, 4to. vol. II. p. 512.
page 262 note a Since this communication was read I have received a note from that distinguished antiquary Mr. Planché, Rougecroix, dated Feb. 28, 1861, from which the following is an extract:—
“I take the first opportunity of assuring you that I am strongly of your opinion respecting the Windsor portraits, and consider the evidence of the catalogue you quote as all but conclusive. The three children, I have little doubt, will prove to be those of the King of Denmark, and not of Henry VII. an error which has been supported by the likeness of the child supposed to be Prince Henry, in Lord Herbert's copy, to the portraits of Henry VIII. in his manhood, but not at all borne out by the features of the same child in the original picture, independently of that child being more probably a girl than a boy. On my return to town next week, I will (if you have not looked to the point already) see how the ages correspond with those of the family of the King of Denmark. On the other picture, also, the catalogue seems to throw a clear light; and if you are positive as to the collar being composed of red and white roses (the red having the place of honour) it must have been painted after the union of the houses; and I see no reason to dispute the probability of its being intended for Prince Arthur. The nose is not so aquiline as that of King Henry VII., but the general contour of the face resembles his; and it has since occurred to me that (as well as I can recollect) there is much in it of the character of Elizabeth of York—just compare them and let me know—that would account for the supposed likeness to Edward IV.”
page 264 note a In the British Museum is a curious medallion (3½ inches in diameter) carved in boxwood, representing Charles V. also beardless, and with the same peculiar mouth; he is in half length, turned to the left, and holding a pomegranate. Bound it is the inscription—
CHARLES ċ R ċ DE ċ CASTILLE ċ LEEON ċ GRENADE ċ AERAGON ċ NAVEERE ċ CECILIS.
it must, therefore, have been executed between 1516, when Charles succeeded to the crown of Spain, and 1519 when he was elected Emperor.
page 265 note a For further information respecting the subject of collars, see Anstis, Register of the Order of the Garter, vol. II. p. 110; Ashmole, Institution of the Garter, p. 218; a Memoir by Mr. Beltz, in Retrospective Review, 2nd Series, vol. II. p. 500; and a series of papers by Mr. J. G. Nichols, in Gentleman's Magazine, 1842, pt. I. pp. 157, 250, 378, 477; pt. II. pp. 353, 595; 1843, pt. I. p. 258.
page 265 note b Engraved by Hollar, and in Shaw's Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages.
page 265 note c Richard had collars with broom pods which are described in the inventory as of the French King's Livery, see Kalendars and Inventories of the Exchequer, vol. III. p. 354, 357.
page 265 note d See Kalendars and Inventories of the Exchequer, vol. III. p. 322, 323.
page 265 note e Setting aside the older theories, such as that of the letters being the initials of S. Simplicius, I may mention that Mr. Beltz suggests Souvenez, Willement Souverayne, Mr. J. G. Nichols Seneschallus.
page 265 note f For instance, the Earl of Warwick, 1439, at Warwick.
page 265 note g A few examples will suffice:—Sir Thomas Massingberde and Lady, c. 1405, Gunby, Lincolnshire; Sir William and Lady Bagot, 1407, Bagginton, Warwickshire; Sir John Wilcotes, 1410, Great Tew, Oxon; Sir Thomas Swynborne, 1412, Little Horkesley, Essex; John Perient and wife, 1415, Digswell, Herts; Thomas FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, 1416, Arundel, Sussex; Edward de la Hale, 1431, Okewood, Surrey; Sir Edward Benstead, 1432, Bennington, Herts; Thomas de St. Quentyn, 1445, Harpham, co. York; John Barnard, 1451, Isleham, Cambridgeshire; Lord Hungerford, 1455, Salisbury Cathedral, &c.
page 266 note a The sun, it is well known, is supposed to have been derived from the appearance of three suns at the battle of Mortimer's Cross. The old livery collar of the Dukes of York was composed, it would seem, of falcons and fetterlocks (vii. linkettz et vi. faucons blancs). See Kal. and Inv. Exch. vol. III. 346.
page 266 note b Gough, Monumental Effigies, vol. II. pl. lxxvii.
page 266 note c Gough, vol. II. pl. lxxxviii.
page 266 note d Hollis, Monumental Effigies; Gough, vol. II. pl. xc.
page 266 note e Hollis, Monumental Effigies.
page 266 note f Waller's Brasses.
page 266 note g Gough, vol. II. pl. xciii.; Stothard, Mon. Eff.
page 266 note h Gough, vol. II. pl. xcv.
page 266 note i Ibid. vol. II. pl. c.; Boutell's Brasses.
page 266 note k Boutell's Series.
page 266 note l Waller's Monumental Brasses, pl. xiv.
page 266 note m Testamenta Vetusta, p. 386.
page 266 note n Stothard, Mon. Effigies, where it is not quite correctly engraved.
page 267 note a Stothard, Effigies; Surtees' Durham.
page 267 note b Gough, vol. II. pl. cxxx.
page 267 note c Gough, vol. II. pl. cxix.
page 267 note d Testamenta Vetusta, p. 437.
page 268 note a Kal. and Inv. Exch. vol. III. p. 394. See also, for red, white, and green roses, Willement's Regal Heraldry, p. 63.
page 268 note b Kal. and Inv. Exch. vol. III. p. 393. It was “yeven to the King by my Lorde Prince anno xxii°.”
page 268 note c Kal. and Inv. Exch. vol. II. p. 263.
page 268 note d Engraved in the Archæologia, Vol. XXXV. pl. xxii.
page 269 note a Waller's Brasses.
page 269 note b Ashmole, Institution of the Garter, p. 222.
page 269 note c Anstis, Register of the Garter, vol. II. p. 121.
page 269 note d Kal. and Inv. Exch. vol. III. p. 399.
page 269 note e Kal. and Inv. Exch. vol. II. p. 263.
page 270 note a Some of these are engraved in Anstis, Eegister of the Garter.
page 270 note b Kal. and Inv. Exch. vol. III. p. 394.
page 270 note c Ibid. vol. II. p. 264.
page 271 note a Contributed to the Manchester Exhibition, 1857, and to the Loan Collection at South Kensington, 1862, No. 2018.