On the Canvas of the Psalter and the Psalter on the Canvas: In Praise of Interdisciplinarity

Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik

doi:10.18290/rh20686-2

Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Humanities https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8789-8989

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh20686-2

Keywords: Psalter, translation, interdisciplinarity, the Stuarts

Abstract

The paper deals with a lost picture of King James II with his daughter, Princess Louisa Maria. They are portrayed with an open Psalter and the initial objective of my investigation was to figure out which Psalter version is presented in the portrait with a view to assessing the position of the Psalter translated in 1700 by John Caryll and David Nairne at James’s exiled court. In the course of the research it turned out that the available English accounts of the picture do not quote verbatim the passage supposedly visible in the portrait but instead silently translate a French description of the portrait, together with the French Psalm verse presented there. This discovery shifted the focus of the investigation towards setting the record straight with recourse to and in full appreciation of interdisciplinary.

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