Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640: 'Whitehall ceiling; old photographs'

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 3010 ONM/2/275
  • Dates of Creation
      [1950s-2000s]
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 file (23 images; 4 letters; 26 notes; 1 document; 2 typescripts; 2 newspaper cuttings)

Scope and Content

Includes:

-letter from D.R. Adams, Chief Architectural Assistant, Ancient Monuments (Works), Department of the Environment, London, dated 1 February 1980, concerning prints of Ruben's ceiling at Whitehall

-five notes on references for the ceiling

-note on a related sale at Sotheby's, 4 March 1969, lot 304

-document: bibliography of literature

-twenty notes on the ceiling

-letter from Professor Lawrence Gowing, Department of Fine Art, University of Durham, dated 1 February 1957, concerning Millar's delivering the annual Charlton Lecture on the Whitehall ceiling

-typescript on an unrecorded sketch by Rubens at Glynde Place, Sussex

-typescript on the Whitehall Ceiling by Oliver Millar

-newspaper cutting: A Rubens Discovery by Oliver Millar, The Times, 18 August 1956

-letter from Aimee Brand, Glynde Place, Sussex, dated 22 August (?), concerning the Glynde sketch

-newspaper cutting: A Rubens Discovery by Jack Gold, The Times, ca. August 1956

-letter from Professor D.J. Gordon, Department of English, University of Reading, dated 12 June 1956, concerning Apothesosis

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