| Description | about the identification of the figures in 'The Ambassadors' by Holbein, mainly from Rev William Lisle Bowles, Bremhill, who believed one was John Dee, 1825-1826. A copy of a paper by John Gough Nichols FSA 'Remarks on some Pictures of Quintin Matsys and Holbein in the Collection of the Earl of Radnor at Longford Castle, 1876, with a note given by Canon Jackson, 1880; several annotations include detail of the purchase of The Ambassadors ' by the 2nd Earl of Radnor (June 1809, although the letter of William Coxe refers to it being in the earls' possesion by Oct 1807). |