Hamilton Inventory 7 June 1759, M4/48 : Page 01
The writer of this inventory uses ff for F. A half-length painting in the eighteenth century was what is now termed a three-quarter-length. Comment by the transcriber is in square brackets.
Transcription
Inventary of Pictures belong:
ing to His Grace the Last deceased
James Duke of Hamilton and
Brandon - With the appraised values by
Mr William Rouet Professor of Church History in the University
of Glasgow and Robert Foulis Printer to the sd University
and Overseer of the Academy of Painting in sd University
7 June 1759
In the Gallery
Marked
Pounds 800 No 1 Daniel in the Den of Lyons by Sir
Peter Paull Rubens
210 2 A Full length of the Earl of Denbigh
by Sir Anthony Vandyke
60 3 A full length of James [2nd] Marquis of
Hamilton by Vanzomer
100 4 James [1st] Duke of Hamilton by Vandyke
A full length
80 5 William Earl of Lanark afterwards
[2nd] Duke of Hamilton by Vandyke
A full length
20 6 William Earl of Selkirk afterwards [3rd] Duke
of Hamilton by Kneller, a full length
20 7 James [4th] Duke of Hamilton by Kneller
a full length
James
Transcript by Rosalind K. Marshall 2006
