Tapestry
1660-1699 (made)
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Tapestry woven in wool and silk on a woollen warp about 18 threads to an inch. Depicting August harvesting with a man sitting on a heap of sheaves of corn in the foreground and drinking from a jug, a boy sleeps behind him, and on the left a woman is gathering sheaves and on the right a man is cutting corn with a scythe. In the middle distance a man is leading corn onto a cart. There is a village in the background on the left and a church on the right. The border contains a curling wine leaf in brown and green-yellow on a slate coloured ground. In the top border is woven a sign of the zodiac 'Virgo'. Woven into the right hand side is the Mortlake shield.
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Materials and techniques | Tapestry woven in wool and silk on a woollen warp |
Brief description | Tapestry woven in wool and silk on a woollen warp, Mortlake Tapestry Factory, England, 1660-1699 |
Physical description | Tapestry woven in wool and silk on a woollen warp about 18 threads to an inch. Depicting August harvesting with a man sitting on a heap of sheaves of corn in the foreground and drinking from a jug, a boy sleeps behind him, and on the left a woman is gathering sheaves and on the right a man is cutting corn with a scythe. In the middle distance a man is leading corn onto a cart. There is a village in the background on the left and a church on the right. The border contains a curling wine leaf in brown and green-yellow on a slate coloured ground. In the top border is woven a sign of the zodiac 'Virgo'. Woven into the right hand side is the Mortlake shield. |
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Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Harriette C. Sheldon |
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Accession number | T.174-1960 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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