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Tapestries, their origin, history and renaissance (1912)

Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · New York, John Lane company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 184

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he Seasons, each in fourpieces, take one back to the days of Comans,Planche, and Mortlake, or even earlier. The wovenframes are sumptuous and there are Latin captionswith allegorical emblems in the Renaissance fashion.The Elements in four pieces with four narrow panels(entrefenetres) to match was… … 168 TAPESTRIES—THEIR ORIGIN different spirit, light and gay and full of the fascina-tions of out-of-doors ancf of children. This was avery popular set and in twenty years it was wovencomplete five times on low warp looms. Of course,the greatest series of all, and the one that firstsuggests itself…

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