Tapestry panel
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silk, Wool
Measurements
810 mm (H); 610 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171332.1
Summary
Tapestry. One of two panels of tapestry worked in wools and silk, petit, gros and demi point. Central figure of a man with birdcage and birds above, two goats in foreground
Provenance
Previously amongst the chattels that, in 1978, were acquired along with Chirk Castle from Lt-Col Ririd Myddelton (1902–1988) by the National Land Fund and handed, on loan for 99 years, to the Secretary of State for Wales. In 1981 Chirk was transferred into the ownership of the National Trust. Purchased by the National Trust in 1994.