11-2 ANCIENT rORTRAlTURES OF OUR LORD. emcraM, aiul that the captive pi-ince was taken prisoner by the Kunians. Another, also shglitly blundered, was brought in 18j7 by Mr. Cuniniing, as recorded in vol. xiv. p. 95 ; a third was in possession of" Henry Howard, Esq., at Greystoke Castle. It is described in the Beauties of England and Wales, vol. iii. p. 167. In the Antiquarian Repertory,'* an engraving will be found of one of the.se portraits communicated in 1780 by ^Ir. W. Loltie, of Canterbury, and described as painted on oak, on a gold ground, the colours fine, the legend in gold letters on a black irround. In 1703 ^[r. Urban received also from ^[r. T. Woulston, of Adderbury, a descri|)tion of one in the possession of jIr. J. Barber ; the legend is precisel}^ the same as on the painting at the Rhydd, with the exception of the con- cluding lines, stating that the prototype, " imprinted in amirald by the predesessor of the Great Turke " was " sent to Pope Innosent (sic) the VIII. for a token to redeme his brother that was takyn presonor."^ In 1703 another is described by K. Iv. as existing at Langton, near Spilsby ; the legend contains several blunders, and sets forth that the "seymylytude " was imprinted in "amyrld." 1 may liere mention also that in the Kevue Archeologiquo' there is a notice of a profile portraiture of the Saviour, with the inscri])tion in English. This painting preserved in the South of France claims special consideration as l)eing the only specimen of the series hitherto found on the Continent. ^AI. Jules Courtet, Sous-Pn'fet of Die, author of the memoir, states that at Granbois, a village in the south of Fivuice (department of Vaucluse), several paintings are to bo seen in a small country house, that retains its old furniture and oinaments. Amongst the j)aintings the most remarkable i.s a bust of our Lord, in profile, beardecl, the head surrounded by an niirvolc compo.sed of cheiubs' jieads winged. The gpiund is gilded ; the dimensions of the picture, wiiich is on copj)(,r, with a frame of clMiny and silver angle-mounts, ia ab<*ut 12 in. by JS in. Tliu countenance of tho Saviour is that of a man in th*- prime of life, of noble expres- bion, rather serious than s<jrrowful. The lov(;r part of this curiou-i relic of Jiyzuntinc art, as .M. Courtet considers
- Vol. iii. p. 101. P.lit. 180R. '• Il.i.r. vol. Ixv.. i-nrt 1, p. 870.
- Oeut. Mog., vol. Ixiii. part 2,>. 1177. ' Vol. iii. pp. KpI, 186.
