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'The Concert' - (The Harpist), An English `Indo-Chinese' Tapestry, London, Soho, workshop of John Vanderbank, circa 1700-1710
Description
- wool, tapestry technique
- approximately 231cm. high, 323cm. wide; 7ft. 7in., 10ft. 7in.
Provenance
Literature
Guy Delmarcel, Nicole de Reyniès & Wendy Hefford, The Toms Collection Tapestries- 16th to 19th centuries, Ed. Giselle Eberhard Cotton, Foundation Toms Pauli, Lausanne, Verlag Niggli AG, Zurich, 2010, Chp. IV, The English Tapestries, pp.238-293.
Heinrich Göbel, Die Wandteppiche, 1934, Part III, Vol.ii, nos.149, 150a & b.
H. C. Marillier, English Tapestries of the Eighteenth Century, London, Medici Society, 1930, pg. 33, pl.13 & 14.
Edith Appleton Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum, 1985, Vol. II, pp. 717-725 for discussion on two English tapestries of similar theme, depicting the `Concert' and `The Toilet of the Princess', and attributed to John Vanderbank and woven at the Great Wardrobe between 1690-1715. Standen discusses the source of some of the figures, in `English Tapestries After the Indian Manner', The Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1981, pp.119-142, which illustrates the Elihu Yale Tapestries, now in the Yale University Art Gallery, (Provenance: The Yale Tapestries, The Property of the Right. Hon. The Earl of Guilford, Sotheby's, London, 18th July 1924).
Amelia Peck, Editor, Interwoven Globe, The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500 - 1800, London, 2013, pp.104-, Cat. No.85, pp.245-246, The Toilet of the Princess, attributed to John Vanderbank, from the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Condition
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