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grassy formation of tlio distant land ; and, more intorestino- still, 

 a distant clinrch tower and roof, which is, doubtless, Charles' 

 Church, Plymouth. 



In Young's engraving this background is represented as 

 rock-strata only with but little form. He also shows eight cannon 

 balls wrongly placed, as will be seen from my restoration. 



On careful examination I next noted that on the painting 

 were three stripes of black braid continued up the fi'ont of the 

 costume from waist to cravat ; also one stripe from the centre 

 of the figure to the left side. The hair lacked any drawing, 

 colour, or modelling ; in fact, looked like a dark brown wig, 

 spoiling the contour of the face. 



Finding that these details were not in Young's engraving, 

 I commenced cleaning carefully, and found underneath all the 

 original colour and modelling of the hair; and the stripes of 

 black braid, which proved to have been added, quickly vanished. 

 Beyond Drake's Island in the distance I also removed a large 

 piece of distant land (shewn in Argall's photograph) which also 

 had been painted in. Also, not shewn in Young's engraving, I 

 found a part of the knickerljockers below the scarlet costume ; 

 some fancy stitching on the left stocking, and excellent modelling 

 in the legs ; and also the silver buckles on the shoes, which 

 proved to have red soles. The general modelling of the costume 

 comes out after cleaning, much the same as in Young's engraving, 

 as does also the sky, which, when the picture came to me, looked 

 like a dark l)rown wooden background almost without variety of 

 colour or modelling, and now a stormy and dark purplish-blue sky 

 is revealed with gleams of orange light breaking through. The 

 tow-rope round the top of the halberd (intended for lighting the 

 gun-fuse) is also revealed as smouldering. 



My work revealed the picture in its original state as des- 

 cribed by Parker, namely "full of cracks and holes, the result of 

 having been rolled up." In this condition it was photographed 

 by your curator, Mr. G. Penrose. 



It is with great j)leasure that I can rejport on the excellent 

 state of preservation of the jjicture in sj^ite of its many mis. 

 fortunes. Sir Godfrey Kneller had prepared the canvas with a 

 beautiful ivory-like groundwork for painting upon, and to this we 



