Catalogue description PAINTINGS, BUSTS, AND PLATE IN LAMBETH PALACE

Correspondence and papers of Archbishops of Canterbury concerning paintings, busts, and plate in Lambeth Palace.

A Paintings

Donation of a painting of the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket, 1908 (ff.1-2).

Loan to Lambeth Palace of a portrait of Archbishop Benson at Wellington College, 1965 (ff.3-9).

Portrait of Charles I, (King of England), 1950, 1961 (ff.10-14).

Portrait of Archbishop Henry Chichele in the United States of America, 1964 (ff.15-19).

Portrait of Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher by A.R. Middleton Todd, 1951-4 (ff.20-36).

Portrait of Rosamond Chevallier Fisher, wife of Archbishop Fisher, by P. Phillips, [1958] (f.37).

Disputed identity of portrait of Henry, Prince of Wales, 1953-4 (ff.38-46).

Portrait of Archbishop Thomas Herring by William Hogarth a copy, 1947-8 (ff.47-50).

Authenticity of portrait of Archbishop William Laud by Sir Anthony Van Dyck accepted, 1924 (ff.51-2).

Photograph of portrait of Archbishop John Morton in the possession of David Astley, 1946 (f.53).

Note on portrait of Archbishop Matthew Parker, 1950 (f.54).

Loan of portrait of Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, to the diocese of Rochester, 1947-8 (ff.55-7).

Donation of a portrait of Archbishop John Potter, 1958 (ff.58-9).

Portrait of Lady Penelope Rich, 1903, 1905 (ff.60-3).

Drawing of Archbishop William Sancroft by David Loggan, and a portrait of Sancroft as a young man, 1906, 1948 (ff.64-7).

Donation of a portrait of Archbishop Thomas Secker, 1956, and the attribution of a portrait of him to Ramsay, 1968 (ff.68-74).

Inscription on the back of a portrait of Ralph Snow (Steward to Archbishop Sheldon) [19th century] (f.75).

Loan by Church House of a portrait of Archbishop William Temple, 1950 (f.76).

Donation of a portrait of Archbishop John Tillotson, 1910 (ff.77-82).

Note of an article on Archbishop William Warham's portrait, 1967 (f.83).

Portrait of Joseph Wolff, missionary, 1953, 1957 (ff.84-8).

Donation of an engraving of the Sistine Madonna given by Queen Victoria to Archbishop Randall Thomas Davidson, 1955 (ff.89-91).

Representation of St. Dunstan, 1962-4 (ff.92-5).

Painting of the Fathers of the Church belonging to Archbishop William Laud, 1922 (f.96).

Donation of a painting by Samuel Prout of Canterbury cathedral crypt, 1911 (ff.97-8).

Donation of an engraving of Canterbury cathedral and railway train, 1949, 1951 (ff.99-103).

Prayer [17th century] by Simon Patrick, Bishop of Ely (1691) (ff.104-6).

B Busts

Identification of a bust of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, by Louis François Roubiliac, 1923 (ff.107-14).

Identification of a bust as possibly of Thomas Gisborne [the elder, divine], 1907-13 (ff.115-122v).

Donation of a bust of Archbishop William Howley by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey, 1906 (f.125).

Donation of a bust of Archbishop Charles Thomas Longley by Joseph Durham, 1900 (ff.126-9).

Donation of a statuette of William Wilberforce (philanthropist), 1908 (f.130).

C Plate

Papers concerning plate and silver, including lists of plate, 1905-62. Also included are papers about the donation to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher by the Friends of the Episcopal Church in America of a communion set for his private use, 1945 (f.169), and papers concerning the donation of a paten and chalice for the restored chapel at Lambeth Palace by H.R.H. Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1956 (ff.179-86). (ff.132v-195).