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Title: A historical catalogue of the pictures, herse-cloths & tapestry at Merchant taylors' hall with a list of the sculptures & engravings
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Fry, Frederick Morris Merchant Taylors' Company
Subjects: Merchant Taylors' Company
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ore-ground are turkeys, peacocks, pheasants and other birds. Thedistance is bounded by mountains. The border consists chieflyof a conventional arrangement of vases of fruit and flowers withcupids, enclosed by a balustrade, and the middle of each side isoccupied by a scene in which are two figures: a man (possiblyApollo) seated and playing on a lyre, with a halo round his head,and a woman kneeling, with a laurel wreath on her head. 182 inches long x 87 inches. The history of this tapestry cannot be established with cer-tainty. Probably it is the subject of the following resolution ofthe Court on July 13, 1G18 : Whereas the Company have oftenborrowed a faire needleworke carpett of Mr. Proctor1 deceased touse in the Kings chamber on Election dayes and that Mrs.Proctor, widdowe, is willing to sell the same to the Companybefore any other. It is therefore ordered and agreed that theCompany understanding that the price wilbe about Tenn 1 Probably Richard Proctor, Warden 1581, Master 1593. 46
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pounds, our Mr shalbe intreated to buy the said cubberd clothat such reasonable rate as he maie. In the Inventory of the same year is the following item: One Cubbard Cloth of Tent Worke bought of Mrs. Prockterfor the Cubbard in the Kings Chamber. The only other piece of tent, or tapestry, work which theCompany appears to have then possessed was the fayer Carpettof Tent Worke of the guift of Mr. Vernon for the KingsChamber. One or other of these had probably disappeared before 1693,when the Inventory contains only one large Tapestry Carpett. Exhibited at the Loan Exhibition at Ironmongers Hall,1861, and at the Loan Exhibition of Ancient EcclesiasticalEmbroideries at the Royal School of Art Needlework, 1884, andthere numbered 167. 47 0 COURT DINING-ROOM 24. GEORGE BRISTOW John Opie, R.A., b. 1761, d. 1807. Three-quarter length, life-size, seated fronting, head slightly tohis left; white wig, black coat and gown; right hand holding aroll of papers, left hand resting on arm of chair, whic

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