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Views of Richmond Palace in the Reign of Charles I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

M. R. Toynbee
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Among the numerous country palaces sold, desecrated, or destroyed after the execution of Charles I in 1649, the features of Greenwich, Richmond, and Nonsuch are perhaps the most familiar by reason of the various representations of them which have survived. Nevertheless, in spite of the complete dissimilarity of their appearance, views of Richmond and Nonsuch have more than once been mistaken for one another. The difference in design is well shown in the two somewhat archaic engravings of the palaces inset in the top corners of the map of Surrey in Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611). Yet an oil-painting of Nonsuch, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and attributed to David Vinkeboons (1578–1629), was wrongly described as a view of Richmond (of which there is a companion painting in the Fitzwilliam) when it was engraved in 1765 and published in Vetusta Monumenta (ii, pl. XXIII) in 1789. Sir A. W. Clapham was the first correctly to identify the Nonsuch painting, which has also been called Theobalds Palace.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 28 , Issue 3-4 , October 1948 , pp. 164 - 165
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1948

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References

page 164 note 1 Architectural Review, Feb. 1911, pp. 63–7; also H. C. Andrews, Ibid., Mar. 1915, p. 59. I am greatly indebted to the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum for these references.

page 165 note 1 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 2nd Series, xxiii (1909–1911), p. 518. I am much indebted to Mr. Philip Corder for this referenceGoogle Scholar.

page 165 note 2 Wenceslaus Hollar and His Views of London and Westminster in the Seventeenth Century, 1922, p. 82Google Scholar.