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Tapestry: The Destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea (from the series THE STORY OF MOSES)
Tapestry: The Destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea (from the series THE STORY OF MOSES)

Tapestry: The Destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea
(from the series THE STORY OF MOSES)

First quarter of the 16th century A.D. 1500–25
Object PlaceProbably Brussels, Flanders
Medium/TechniqueWarp: wool; wefts: wool, silk and silver yarn; tapestry
Dimensions414 x 580 cm (163 x 228 3/8 in.); Legacy dimension: 5.80 L. x 4.14 H. / 231" L. x 62" H.
Credit LineOtis Norcross Fund
Accession number95.1
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceGeorges de Salverte (d. by 1887), Paris; May 5-6, 1887, posthumous Salverte sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 211, sold for fr. 8000 to Thomas R. Plummer (b. 1862 - d. 1918), South Dartmouth, MA; 1895, sold by Thomas R. Plummer to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 8, 1895)