A short history of tapestry. From the earliest times to the end of the 18th century (1885)
Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902, Davis, Louisa J · London, New York [etc.] : Cassell & Company, Limited · leaf 50
TAPESTRY. 30 morally bound to sell at once a Babylonian tapestry inherited by him.* But Plautus (d. 183) tells us that in the second century tapestries of some repute were manufactured in Campania. . . Peristromata. . . picta. . . Campaniae.f Foreign importation did the rest. At the first dawn of… … FlG. 4. — ROMAN HANGING. (After a fresco at Pompeii.) a conspicuous place in the public edifices, as well as in the palaces and villas of private individuals. J We find figures of the conquered Britons woven in the * Plutarch's "Life of Cato," § 24. f Pseudolus, act I., sc. ii., v. 12. X In the…
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