Hamilton Inventory M4/20 : Page 06
List of 384 paintings belonging to James, 3rd Marquis, later 1st Duke of Hamilton, after February 1638.
Transcript with spelling and punctuation modernised
Words in italics and bold are in the handwriting of the 3rd Marquis himself.
Transcription
71 One picture of the Ascension of Our Lady, in black and white, with 12 figures
in it, besides a company of angels; of
72 One perspective of a church, with a pair of organs, and fifty figures; of
73 One picture of a skull lying upon a piece of paper, an hour glass, a piece of
laurel, a frog, snails and flowers, and a landscape; of De Heem
74 One sea piece with 2 ships and some rocks; of Porcellis
75 One piece of Cain killing Abel; of Jacobus Palma
76 One sea piece with 3 ships and rocks, and a whale spouting water; of
Porcellis
77 One little round sea piece, with 3 ships in it; of
78 One little round piece of Harry the eighth [Henry VIII]
79 One sea piece with a town of [on] one side and ships before [in front of] it;
of
80 One sea piece with a barque and a ship or two afar off; of
81 One sea piece with 2 ships and many more afar off
82 One sea piece with 3 barques and a town afar off
83 One picture of a Bishop
84 One picture of the angels coming to the shepherds, with 4 figures in it, a cow,
a calf, an ass, a goat and 4 sheep, and a landscape; a copy of Bassano
85 One picture of My Lord [James, 3rd Marquis, later 1st Duke of Hamilton], standing at length [a full-length portrait], with his hat in his hand; of Mytens
86 One sea piece with 2 ships near and 2 ships afar off; of
87 One picture of Bacchus, Venus, Cupid and Ceres in the clouds, with a
landscape underneath
88 One landscape with a windmill, a wagon full of passengers and a cart; of
Transcripts by Rosalind K. Marshall 2006
