Verdure
Flemish
Category
Tapestries
Date
circa 1650 - circa 1675
Materials
Tapestry, wool and silk, 4 warps per cm
Measurements
1.89 m (H); 4.38 m (W)
Place of origin
Belgium
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1289256.5
Summary
Tapestry, wool and silk, 4 warps per cm, Verdure, one of four, Flemish, c. 1650-1675. A dense wooded landscape composed of two related pieces of tapestry joined together. The join occurs about one third of the way in from the left. Various wild animals can be seen among the trees including two deer to either side of the join, a red lion in the right foreground, and a parrot perched in the branches of a tree at the upper right. The tapestry has no borders.
Full description
The tapestry is one of four related verdures at Wightwick, all of which have been cut up and reassembled to fill parts of the walls on the ground floor of the house (nos. 1289256.2-4). A fifth tapestry, no. 1289256.1, is not related to the others but was made slightly later and has a different border. (Helen Wyld, 2013)
Makers and roles
Flemish, workshop