tion.” Redgrave was able to obtain an annual sum for conservation and
to plan programs of conservation. Other entries describe more extensive
work. The sheet made in 1868 for Rubens’s Assumption ofthe Virgin
includes a photograph that shows the panel joins very prominently, as well
as asplit on the left side (Fig. 15). Redgrave notes that the panel has now
been “carefully parqueted to keep together the 4 pieces sound.” The care-
ful parqueting of Rubens’s Farm at Lachen(Royal Collection, Hampton
Court Palace), recorded in March 1861, did not last, as the panel was
treated for blistering in 1901, 1950, 1963, 1964, and 1975.H S C P P G B 247Figure 15
Redgrave Inventory, entry for Rubens’s
Assumption of the Virgin. R oyal Collection.