. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . DRAWING OF MAXIMILIAN. (Gallery of Engravings, Berlin ; dated 1510). suit belonging to the Emperor, which was evidently used as a model forhis present to Henry VHI made by Conrad Seusenhofer between the years1511 and 1514. One of the armets in the upper margin is of very similartype to that of the Engraved suit. The signature A. D. was con-sidered by Boeheim to be that of Durer, but this attribution has beenrejected by Lippman. The two portraits given on the following page show Robert Dudley Earl ofLeicester wearing part of the s
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . DRAWING OF MAXIMILIAN. (Gallery of Engravings, Berlin ; dated 1510). suit belonging to the Emperor, which was evidently used as a model forhis present to Henry VHI made by Conrad Seusenhofer between the years1511 and 1514. One of the armets in the upper margin is of very similartype to that of the Engraved suit. The signature A. D. was con-sidered by Boeheim to be that of Durer, but this attribution has beenrejected by Lippman. The two portraits given on the following page show Robert Dudley Earl ofLeicester wearing part of the suit now shown in the Armouries (H. 8i),and William Somerset Earl of Worcester, also wearing armour in thiscollection (H. 83), the designs for which appear in the Armourers Albumabove noticed. The portraits of George Clifford Earl of Cumberland atAppleby, at Montague House, in Sir Henry Howorths collection, in the Wendelin Boeheim, Meister der Waffenschmiedkunst. Plate I. o^////r//(Lf/y//^f//Vr^^^^ INTRODUCTION Bodleian Library and elsewhere,show armour decorated with stars,which approximates very nearly tothe portions of a suit now in theArmouries (II. 85). Unfortunately, there are nosuch records in England as theinvaluable illustrated Inventory ojCharles V, by which the ownershipof many of the important armoursin the Madrid Collection has beenincontrovertibly established, and ourinvestigations on such points mustbe guided almost entirely by thegeneral description given of eachpiece in the several Surveys, byscattered entries in the Collectionsof State Papers and by is true that the ArmourersAlbum, above referred to, has beenof incalculable value in determining
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