The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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[Album coloured engraved portraits of Pope Alexander VII and his Cardinals]

[Letter from Susan[ah] to Ralph Thoresby] (to be determined)

Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury

Date:c.1660 Owner John Bargrave (1610-1680) Subject of/in a documentAlexander VII (13 Feb 1599-22 May 1667) Annotation:A series of 36 coloured portraits of Pope Alexander VII's cardinals, previously loose, now archivally mounted and bound. There is no mention of these in Gentle Traveller, nor in Bargrave's own surviving documentation.