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X.—Notes on a Picture representing the Three Children of Philip King of Castile, in the possession of Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq., F.S.A.

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The curious triptych figured in Plate XV. appears to have been, in the first instance, a gift from Philippe le Beau and Jeanne la Folle, parents of the children therein represented, to King Henry VII., to commemorate a visit which they unexpectedly paid to this country at the beginning of 1505.

The triptych has been ascertained, by means of a brief entry in an inventory taken for Henry VIII. of goods and furniture deposited in his Palace of Westminster, to have been royal property in 1542. It is there denominated “a folding table,” and occurs at the end of a long series of royal portraits.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1870

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page 245 note a Charles's coat is quarterly of four. 1. Austria. 2. Burgundy ancient. 3. Burgundy modern. 4. Brabant. Surtout Flanders. In chief a label argent. The shield is surrounded by the collar of the Golden Fleece. The arms above the two sisters are the same, with the omission of the label, and each occupies the sinister side of a lozenge party per pale, the dexter side in each case being left blank.

page 246 note a Biographie Universelle, s. v. Eléonora, p. 10.

page 246 note b Stirling's, Cloister Life of Charles V. London, 1853, pp. 4, 142Google Scholar.

page 246 note c Histoire Généalogique des Maisons Souveraines de l'Europe, par. M. V. …, Paris, 8vo. 1812, ii. 74.

page 246 note d See Archæologia, xxxix. 257.

page 246 note e Prescott's History of Ferdinand and Isabella, edit. 1854, pp. 467, 477.

page 247 note a Biographie Universelle, s. v. Philippe, p. 147.

page 248 note a Collins's Peerage, ed. 1779, i. 245.

page 248 note b Edmund De la Pole, beheaded 30th April, 1513.

page 248 note c Bacon's Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, ed. 1622, p. 225.

page 248 note d xxxix. 248, 264.

page 248 note e Works of the Earl of Orford, 4to. 1798, iii. 55.

page 250 note a In later days the Emperor always addressed her as “Madame ma meilleur sceur.”—See Cloister Life of Charles V. By W. Stirling. P. 4.

page 251 note a Page 116, No. 43, of Vertue and Bathoe's edition.

page 251 note b Vol. xxxix. p. 263.

page 252 note a Vol. xxxix. p. 263.

page 252 note b See Arneth, Monumente des Cabinettes en Wien, fol. 1858, pi. i. No. 128, and pi. iv.

page 252 note c Old London, pp. 288, 335. The above description is literally copied from the Harleian Manuscript. Bathoe, p. 119, no. 58, has not merely changed the punctuation, but altered the word Primo into Prince. He has also inserted measurements which do not appear at all in the original MS. There can be little doubt that this description is intended for the same picture as lo. 16 of the Westminster catalogue. Some obvious errors in the 1639 catalogue will hereafter be noticed. In the present instance, the Emperor Frederick would be Frederick IV., husband of Leonora of Portugal, and father of Maximilian, thus shifting the names one generation back, and leaving one to infer that the third “picture” or portrait, would be Philippe le Beau instead of Charles V.

page 254 note a Page 86, No. 12, of Bathoe and Vertue's edition.

page 254 note b See Artistic and Descriptive Notes on Pictures in the British Institution, Pall Mall, 1858. By G. Scharf, jun. p. 70.

page 255 note a Anderson's Tables, p. 710, I.

page 255 note b Archæologia, xxxix. 257.

page 255 note c Old London, p. 290, No. 21. Wornum's Holbein, p. 383.

page 256 note a Bartsch, viii. 294, 92 ; Nagler Künstler-Lexicon, s. v. Binck, p. 505.

page 256 note b Herœus, pl. xviii. No. 21 ; and plate xxv. No. 14.

page 256 note c Bathoe's edition, page 109, No. 10. In this and all other quotations from the Whitehall catalogue, I have corrected the text according to the original MS.

page 256 note d It is somewhat remarkable that in two entries relating to this princess in King Charles's catalogue there should be such glaring oversight as to make her a queen of Bavaria, and the survivor of her husband.

page 256 note e Ante, page 250.

page 256 note f Vander Doort's Catalogue, printed by Bathoe and Vertue, p. 109, No. 9.

page 256 note g See Old London, 1867, p. 374.