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_Pictorial Antiquities._--The following memorandum, in the _autograph_
of Edward, Earl of Oxford (the Harleian collector), seems worth
preserving:
"A picture of Edward IV. on board at Kensington.
"A whole length of him at St. James's, in a night-gown and black cap.
"A portrait of his queen in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
"Jane Shore at Eaton (_sic_).
"Richard III. at Kensington.
"Picture of Henry V. and his family at Mr. West's.
"A picture of Mabuse at St. James's, called Albert Durer.
"Matthew Paris with miniatures, in the British Museum.
"William of Wickham's Crozier at Oxford.
"Greek enamellers in the reign of the two Edwards.
"An old altar-table at Chiswick; Lord Clifford and his lady kneeling;
Consecration of Thomas à Becket at Devonshire House, both by Van
Eyck."
"Froissart illuminated, wherein is a miniature of Richard II., in the
Museum."
One might have thought that these notes were made for the use of Horace
Walpole's _History of Painting_; but their writer, the second Lord
Oxford, died in June, 1741, long before Walpole could have thought of
such matters. They perhaps may afford clues to other antiquaries.