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The writer examines three early-17th-century watercolors of the tombs of Henry VII and Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey, London. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the album amicorum or Stammbuch was particularly popular among educated Germans. These small, pocket-sized books were taken abroad by travelers, where they not only obtained the autographs of foreign dignitaries but also commissioned picture-shop artists to make watercolor paintings on their pages. Among the most intriguing of the several thousand surviving albums is that once owned by Jakob Fetzer, who, while in England between July 1618 and May 1620, apparently visited the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey. Here he was sufficiently impressed by the grand burial tombs of the first Tudor king and the legendary Tudor queen to commission what may well be unique watercolor paintings of them, each remarkably detailed. The writer examines the paintings in detail.
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