Boys Harvesting Grapes (fragment)
possibly London
Category
Tapestries
Date
circa 1670 - circa 1690
Materials
Tapestry, wool and silk, 6 warps per cm
Measurements
310 x 420 mm
Order this imageCollection
Cotehele, Cornwall
NT 348253.5
Summary
Tapestry, wool and silk, 6 warps per cm, Boys Harvesting Grapes (fragment) from a set of seven Bacchanals, Antwerp or London, c. 1670-1690. A small tapestry fragment removed from the lower left hand corner of 348253.4, ‘Boys Harvesting Grapes’. (Helen Wyld, 2010)
Full description
Provenance
First recorded at Cotehele c. 1840; left at Cotehele when the property was accepted in lieu of tax from Kenelm, 6th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1873-1965) and transferred to the National Trust in 1947; amongst the contents accepted in lieu of estate duty by H M treasury and transferred to the National Trust in 1974.
Credit line
Cotehele House, The Edgcumbe Collection (The National Trust)
Makers and roles
possibly London, workshop possibly Antwerp , workshop
References
Hefford, 2010: Wendy Hefford, ‘The English Tapestries’, in Guy Delmarcel, Nicole de Reyniès and Wendy Hefford, The Toms Collection Tapestries of the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, Zürich 2010, pp. 239-294 Hefford, 1992: Wendy Hefford, 'Ralph Montagu's Tapestries', in Tessa Murdoch (ed.), Boughton House, the English Versailles, London 1992 Hefford, 1991: Wendy Hefford, The Cotehele Tapestries, The National Trust, 1991 (n.p.) Hefford, 1988: Wendy Hefford, 'Introducing James Bridges: new light on an English series of Eucharist tapestries.' Arts in Virginia, vol. 28 (1988), 34-47 Forti-Grazzini, 1994: Nello Forti-Grazzini, Gli Arazzi (Il patrimonio artistico del Quirinale), 2 vols., Rome 1994 W G Thomson, A History of Tapestry from the earliest times to the present day (3rd edn.), Wakefield 1973 Marillier, 1930: Henry C Marillier, English Tapestries of the Eighteenth Century, London 1930