Embroidered Gallery

Boy with a Fawn, ca. 1720. Creator: Unknown

Boy with a Fawn, ca. 1720. Beautiful embroidered coat indicates wealth and privilege, the deer behind is an emblem of longevity and discipline.

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Medieval weaving, embroidery, enamel and painted sculpture, (1898). Creator: Unknown

Medieval weaving, embroidery, enamel and painted sculpture, (1898). 'Fig 1: Statue of St. Simon in the choir of Cologne Cathedral. Fig 2: Pattern on the robe of another statue ibid. Fig 3: Embroidered fonder of French origin. 14th century. Fig 4: Embroidered stuff (in the original, silver is employed instead of gold), 15th century. Fig 5: Embroidered stuff, 14th century. Figs 6-9: Borders and patterns of carpets from the wall-paintings in the upper church S. Francesco at Assisi. 14th century. Fig 10: Pattern of a carpet from a tempera-painting of Niccolo Alunno (1466) in the pinacotheca at Perugia. Fig 11: Sicilian weaving from St. Mary's church at Danzig, 13th century. Fig 12: Border of a carpet on the painting of Hugo van der Goes in the Palazzo degli Uffizi at Florence, 15th century. Fig 13: Border of a carpet on a picture of [by?] Mantegna in S. Zeno at Verona, late 15th century. Fig 14: Border from an embroidered chasuble, 14th century (German work). Figs 15 and 16: Patterns of stuffs from the 14th century, of French origin. Fig 17: Gilt copper-engraving from the cross-relics-table in the catholic parish-church at Mettlach. Figs 18-20: Enamelled decorations on the shrine of the Three Kings in Cologne Cathedral, early 13th century. Fig 21: Enamelled border in the Musee de Cluny, early 13th century'. Plate 42 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]

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'Queen Jane Seymour', 1536, (early-mid 19th century). Creator: H Robinson

'Queen Jane Seymour', 1536, (early-mid 19th century). Portrait of Jane Seymour, third wife and Queen of Henry VIII of England. Jane Seymour (c1509-1537) married Henry the day after the execution of the king's scond wife, Anne Boleyn. She was queen for less than two years, dying of puerperal fever, twelve days after giving birth to Henry's longed-for son, who later became Edward VI. Engraving after a painting made in 1536, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. [The London Printing and Publishing Company, London]

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