ENGLISH TAPESTRIES
HISTORIC SPECIMENS SECURED , BY MUSEUM, The Victoria and Albert'Museum hsa just secured from the funds of the Murray Bequest a very fine and important set of English Elizabethan tapestry. Thera are five small panels and ono double panel, probably _ woven for cushion covers. They depict the ‘History of Jacob’ after the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth chapters of Genesis i Esau selling his birthright, Rebecca disguising Jacob, Isaac blessing Jacob, Jacob’s dream, Jacob-at the well, and Jacob meeting Rachel. - The double panel has on * either side of the scene a vase of singularly beautiful flowers and fruits. The coloring throughout is rich and in perfect preservation; gold thread is liberally introduced. Such tapestry was made on the looms of William Sheldon at Barcheston, in ’Warwickshire. The good workmanship and the charming drawing of the flowers are not only of very high quality, but also characteristically English.
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Evening Star, Issue 19161, 30 January 1926, Page 1
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146ENGLISH TAPESTRIES Evening Star, Issue 19161, 30 January 1926, Page 1
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