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Jaime
Kaminski
Sussex Archaeological Society
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In 1989 a drawing of 1820 by William Henry Brooke (1772-1860) was included in an exhibition at Michelham Priory. It was soon realized that it provided valuable historical evidence of the original form of Lambert Barnard's Amberley Castle 'Worthies', painted for Robert Sherburne, Bishop of Chichester in the early sixteenth century. Beginning with a documentary history of the panels and their origins, the article continues with a discussion of their subject, of Brooke's drawing and of the importance of their combined survival.