Judge on Horseback

Detail from a collection of ‘Royal, military and court costumes of the time of James I & VI’
© Folger Shakespeare Library: ART Vol. c91 no.9b, #62391 in their Digital Image Collection (62391),
made available under their Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

This image is online at the Folger’s LUNA site.The description suggests that the paintings were by an Italian painter and ‘probably intended for or extracted from an album amicorum.’. The University of Edinburgh’s Special Collections houses an almost identical set in their Laing Collection La.III.283, the Album Amicorum of Michael van Meer (collected 1613-1648). The judge is at fol. 162^v. Go to their LUNA website. He and the other official characters, including the King, are riding to Parliament.