. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . nised as existing at the present day. Henry VIIIis never represented in armour except in the coloured sketch {Brit. MS. Augustus 3), in the wall painting of the siege of Boulogne,formerly at Cowdray, engraved by the Society of Antiquaries, and in thepicture at Hampton Court showing his meeting with Maximilian atTerouanne. Charles I was certainly painted in armour by Vandyck, butthe suit is a plain one, and is not the gilt suit in the Armouries. 4 THE ARMOURIES OF THE TOWER OF LONDON. A drawing in the Gallery of Engravin
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . nised as existing at the present day. Henry VIIIis never represented in armour except in the coloured sketch {Brit. MS. Augustus 3), in the wall painting of the siege of Boulogne,formerly at Cowdray, engraved by the Society of Antiquaries, and in thepicture at Hampton Court showing his meeting with Maximilian atTerouanne. Charles I was certainly painted in armour by Vandyck, butthe suit is a plain one, and is not the gilt suit in the Armouries. 4 THE ARMOURIES OF THE TOWER OF LONDON. A drawing in the Gallery of Engravings at Berlin, showing the EmperorMaximilian armed and mounted, is of exceptional interest, in that the mainlines of the armour for man and horse are those of the Engraved suit in the Tower. This is especially noticeable in the case of the horsearmour, of which the crupper is very long and the peytral is distinguishedby swelling bosses, both peculiarities of the Engraved bard. The fact thatthe page is dated 1510 suggests that the drawing represented an existing. 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
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