Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possessions. There were pictures of his horses, racing, hunters and parade, his Clumber hunting spaniels, his late mother's Labradors, his wife's collection of old Chinese jade, his Empire stamp collection, his great houses of Sandringham, Buckingham, Balmoral and, 500 years older than the others, Windsor. To the King's treasures at Windsor, the Connoisseur gave nearly an entire issue...
...these royal treasures were entirely eclipsed last week by publication of a two-volume work called A Catalogue of the Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle,† by 32-year-old Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Director of London's National Gallery and Surveyor of the King's Pictures. The King's collection is far & away the biggest and finest collection of Leonardo drawings now known to man. In his first volume of notes, Cataloger Clark makes it tell much of great Leonardo, one of the brightest, blandest...
...book of Leonardo's drawings for 3½ guineas. He was too thrifty to give it to his King and he seems to have forgotten the book entirely. More than 70 years later, early in the reign of George III, a Mr. Dalton reached into a chest at Windsor Castle, pulled out the priceless book of Leonardo drawings...
...mounted, were exhibited. A few scholars began to study them. One of the first. Dr. P. Muller-Walde, went mad. Another, Theodore Sabachnikoff, was so broken by his publisher's issuing his photographs of the collection without text or preparation, that he died of dismay. In 1930 the Windsor librarian gave Kenneth Clark the job of cataloging the entire collection. In the first of the two volumes published last week he includes some 30,000 of Leonardo's hitherto unpublished words, translated from the margins and backs of the drawings...
...Windsor is full of old masters and old armor. Holbein and Van Dyck painted the kings. The kings wore the armor. The Windsor collection is notably deficient in both pictures and armor of Britain's most picturesque and warlike kings, the Plantagenets...