LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1Venetia, Lady Digby, on her Deathbed by Anthony van Dyck 1633 by permission of the trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery
2Gayhurst House © Hermione Eyre
3Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby by Peter Oliver © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
4Sir Kenelm Digby 1603-65, by Peter Oliver © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
5Sir Kenelm’s alchemical notebook, from the Wellcome Library, London © Hermione Eyre
6Venetia, Lady Digby, on her Deathbed, by Anthony Van Dyck, 1633 by permission of the trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery
7Sir Kenelm Digby 1603–1665 by Anthony Van Dyck © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
8Gresham College, 1740 Engraving by George Vertue of Gresham College, looking East, showing the entrance from Old Broad Street, from John Ward’s Lives of the Professors of Gresham College (1740)
9‘The Madagascar Portrait’ of the Earl and Countess of Arundel, by Anthony Van Dyck circa 1639 © Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna