Embroidery
Category
Textiles
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Canvas, linen and silk ground. Silk and metal wrapped threads.
Measurements
4960 x 3530 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516753
Summary
Embroidered panel, woven with silk thread on canvas and picked our in gilt thread, depicting an allegory of Sunrise, the Sun's chariot driving across the sky, seashore below with sleeping figure, huntsman in foreground, Italian C17.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.