and that it has nothing to do with Basel or the Zunft zum Himmel. Footnote 68: Dickes, _Holbein’s “Ambassadors” Unriddled_, p. 3. Footnote 69: This point is dealt with in a later chapter. See pp. 157-158. Footnote 70: _C.L.P._, vol. vi. 805. Footnote 71: _C.L.P._, vol. vi. 918. [Illustration: VOL. II., PLATE 8 APOLLO AND THE MUSES Design for the Decoration of the Steelyard on the occasion of the Coronation of Anne Boleyn _Pen-and-wash drawing touched with green_ ROYAL PRINT ROOM, BERLIN ] [Sidenote: “APOLLO AND THE MUSES”] The Imperial two-headed eagle was also carved in stone over the principal entrance to the Steelyard. The old device had disappeared in the course of time, but in 1670 a new one was placed in position. The following item occurs in a series of accounts still extant in connection with the Steelyard buildings of that period: “December 31st, 1670. To Gabriel Cibbert, stone-cutter,—for the eagle put on over the gate from Thames Street, fixed on John Balls buildings, £5.” Caius Gabriel Cibber, a native of Holstein, and father of Colley Cibber, was a sculptor of some merit who practised in London. This sculptured shield-shaped stone, bearing an eagle displayed with a crowned collar and two heads, surrounded by an inscription, was also removed in course of time, and was recently found by Mr. Lawrence Weaver in the garden of Bickley Hall, Kent.[72] Footnote 72: See Dr. Philip Norman’s paper, already quoted, in _Archæologia_, vol. lxi. pt. 2, p. 406, in which the shield is reproduced. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER XVII “THE TWO AMBASSADORS,” 1533 Holbein receives the offer of a yearly pension from the Basel Town Council—“The Two Ambassadors”—The identity of the sitters—History and description of the picture—Other portraits of Dinteville and the members of his family—Félix Chrétien—Mr. Dickes’ theory that the picture represents the Princes Palatine Otto Henry and Philipp—The “Portrait of a Musician” at Bulstrode Park. THROUGHOUT the earlier years of Holbein’s second sojourn in England, though he was busily occupied on work for the German merchants of the Steelyard, his time was by no means completely taken up with the commissions they gave him both individually and as a corporate body. During the same period he painted the portraits of more than one Englishman and several foreigners of distinction. [Sidenote: LETTER OF RECALL FROM BASEL]