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Tapestry

Andien de Clermont (French (active in England), 1725)

I (Joshua?) Morris

First half of the 18th century

Object PlaceLondon (Soho or Pall Mall?), England

Medium/TechniqueTapestry weave (wool warp; wool and silk wefts)

DimensionsOverall: 574 x 518.2 x 7.6 cm (226 x 204 x 3 in.)

Credit LineCharles Potter Kling Fund

Accession number65.1314

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsTextiles

Collections

ProvenanceBefore 1930, Lionel Harris, The Spanish Art Gallery, London [see note 1]. By 1930 until at least 1945, French and Company, New York. Mae Cadwell (Mrs. John E.) Rovensky (b. 1878 - d. 1956), Newport, RI; January 22, 1957, Rovensky estate sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 1018, to French and Co., New York; May 9, 1957, sold by French and Co. to Elizabeth (Mrs. A. Hamilton) Rice, New York [see note 2]; October 23, 1965, Mrs. Rice and others sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 344, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 10, 1965)

NOTES:
[1] H. C. Marillier, English Tapestries of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1930), p. 10, no. 3, where three related tapestries, all from the Spanish Art Gallery, are discussed. [2] Information taken from Study Collection of Photographs of Tapestries, Photo Archive Database online, Getty Research Institute, no. 304442.