Category: Diplomacy

Bibliographical Note: Sainsbury’s ‘Papers Relating to Rubens’.

On By Paula WoodsIn Balthazar Gerbier, Bibliographical Note, Collection and Patronage, DiplomacyLeave a comment

W.N Sainsbury. Original Unpublished Papers Illustrative of the Life of Sir Peter Paul Rubens As an Artist and a Diplomatist. London. Bradbury and Evans. 1859. From time to time, I intend to add a note on something of bibliographical or historiographical relevance, and thought I'd begin with a book that contributed significantly to stimulating my interest …

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Windebank’s ‘Virginall’ – Gerbier buys a harpsichord.

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Like many 17th century diplomats, Gerbier must have been accustomed to shopping expeditions on behalf of family, friends, and patrons at the court of Charles I. As well as his celebrated art-buying expeditions, he could find himself responding to requests for more unusual items, such as a font of metal type, or a barrel of …

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