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APPENDIX.
(A.)
CATALOGUE OF THE CAPITAL PICTURES IN THE COLLECTION
OF CHAELES I., KING OF ENGLAND.
In composing this catalogue, I have made use of the following :—
1. A Catalogue and Description of King Charles the First's Capital
Collection of Pictures, consisting of Statues, Bronzes, Medals, and
other Curiosities, from the original MS. in the Ashmolean Museum
at Oxford; London, M.DCCLVII. ; 202 pages, with Index in 4to.
We are indebted for the publication of this interesting work to Mr.
Vertue, who has rendered so many services to the antiquities and the
fine arts in England. As he died before the printing was completed,
Bathoe undertook to publish it. This book contains two original docu-
ments. The first, with the title ' Pictures belonging to King Charles I.,
at his several palaces, appraised, and some of them sold, by the Council
of State,' fills the first eight pages. On the back of the title we read
that the following statement relating to all the objects, giving the
appraised and the sale prices, is taken from a catalogue which was in
the possession of Mr. John Anstis, Garter King at Arms. The state-
ment itself gives an interesting account of the paintings and statues
which the King possessed, and how they were distributed among the
several palaces. From the eighty-eight pictures and nine statues which
are mentioned by name we learn which were considered as particularly
excellent; then follows the catalogue itself, entitled, ' A Description
of the King's Collection of Pictures, taken from an original MS. in
the Ashmole Museum,' in 182 pages, a complete catalogue of part of
the works of art in the Palace of St. James, and of all in the Palace
at Whitehall, by the King's keeper of them, Vanderdoort, probably
drawn up about the year 1639, stating the measurements, and often the
places from which they came, or the persons by whom they were pre-
sented. From this catalogue we learn how great were the treasures
of works of art in the most important division, the Palace of White-
hall, and in what order they were arranged there.
2. A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, &c, belonging to
King James the Second ; to which is added, a Catalogue of the Pictures
vol. ii. 2 ii
APPENDIX.
(A.)
CATALOGUE OF THE CAPITAL PICTURES IN THE COLLECTION
OF CHAELES I., KING OF ENGLAND.
In composing this catalogue, I have made use of the following :—
1. A Catalogue and Description of King Charles the First's Capital
Collection of Pictures, consisting of Statues, Bronzes, Medals, and
other Curiosities, from the original MS. in the Ashmolean Museum
at Oxford; London, M.DCCLVII. ; 202 pages, with Index in 4to.
We are indebted for the publication of this interesting work to Mr.
Vertue, who has rendered so many services to the antiquities and the
fine arts in England. As he died before the printing was completed,
Bathoe undertook to publish it. This book contains two original docu-
ments. The first, with the title ' Pictures belonging to King Charles I.,
at his several palaces, appraised, and some of them sold, by the Council
of State,' fills the first eight pages. On the back of the title we read
that the following statement relating to all the objects, giving the
appraised and the sale prices, is taken from a catalogue which was in
the possession of Mr. John Anstis, Garter King at Arms. The state-
ment itself gives an interesting account of the paintings and statues
which the King possessed, and how they were distributed among the
several palaces. From the eighty-eight pictures and nine statues which
are mentioned by name we learn which were considered as particularly
excellent; then follows the catalogue itself, entitled, ' A Description
of the King's Collection of Pictures, taken from an original MS. in
the Ashmole Museum,' in 182 pages, a complete catalogue of part of
the works of art in the Palace of St. James, and of all in the Palace
at Whitehall, by the King's keeper of them, Vanderdoort, probably
drawn up about the year 1639, stating the measurements, and often the
places from which they came, or the persons by whom they were pre-
sented. From this catalogue we learn how great were the treasures
of works of art in the most important division, the Palace of White-
hall, and in what order they were arranged there.
2. A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, &c, belonging to
King James the Second ; to which is added, a Catalogue of the Pictures
vol. ii. 2 ii