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An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1900)

Strange, Thomas Arthur · London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner · leaf 173

An illustration from An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth, 1900, leaf 173 — speakswell for the older tapestry.In this old tapestry strongrich colours were used. Earlyexamples, either from Beau-vais or the Gobelins, showthe fine red browns, the clearcarnations, etc., and this ispartly why these oldertapestry colours faded less.But in the later period, themania for great… … c O oH E-IS O4= H

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