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Identifier
47.101.2d
Transfer of custody
Victoria and Albert Museum
Acquisition
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1947
Collection
The Cloisters
Material
Wool
Textile
Technique
  • Velvet 49%
  • Embroidery 80%
  • Embroidery 69%
  • Embroidery 100%
Depiction
  • Floral motif 61%
Dimension
420.4 cm (height)
264.2 cm (width)
Production time
1400~ / 1410~
15th century (dates CE)
14th century (dates CE)
Production place
South Netherlandish
Type of object
ornamental fabrics

Description

This tapestry is part of four hangings that have been reconstructed from what originally was a set of three tapestries depicting the Nine (or Ten?) Worthies. The heroes depicted included King Arthur, Joshua, David, Hector of Troy, and Julius Caesar, along with various attendants. One of the reconstructed hangings (32.130.2b, 47.101.1, 47.152) shows two of the three Hebrew Worthies in their settings and with nearly all of their attendant figures. Another represents King Arthur (32.130.2a, 47.101.4), one of the three or possibly four figures that appeared in the original tapestry devoted to the Christian Worthies, together with some attendant figures. The third and fourth pieces represent respectively Hector of Troy (47.101.2) and Julius Caesar (47.101.3), with attendant, taken from a third tapestry that depicted the three Pagan Worthies. Other fragments (47.101.5 and 49.123), showing architectural elements, bits of landscape, and the incomplete figures of three cardinals and a bishop, all apparently unconnected to those parts of the three original hangings that survive, are preserved separately in the Metropolitan Museum.

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