Champeaux, Alfred de, 1833-1903, Sketchley, Richard Foster, Mrs · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall · leaf 58
MARK OV HANJ TAPESTRY. 45 preserved the greater part of these tapestries, which bear mostof them the mark adopted by Rost, representing a fowl roasting(rosto in Italian) on a spit. … MARK OF JEAN ROST, TAPESTRY-MAKER AT FLORENCE, 1546. The manufacture had fallen into decay, although it had neverbeen discontinued, when in 1621 Cosmo de Medici invitedPierre Fevre, or Lefebvre, a skilful tapestry-maker—who worked atParis in the galleries of the Louvre, and whose whole family was…
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