Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Picture with cream canvas worked with polychrome silks in Florentine stitch.
The design is outlined in black ink and is part of a larger composition representing the judgement of Paris; only part of the sky, columns and the foreground have been worked. Above Paris we see a hand with a thunderbolt, at her feet a peacock; Minerva is placed in the centre with her spears on the ground, on the right sits Venus in the clouds in a chariot of doves, to her right sits Cupid with a serpent and two hearts, one transfixed with arrows the other burning. Above the clouds sits Mercury.
Legal notes
Longman Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 23.1/2 in
Width: 23 in
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1938)
by
Longman
Dating
18th Century
Circa
1701
-
Circa
1801
Materials used in production
probably
Linen
Silk
Techniques used in production
Weaving
: Picture with cream canvas worked with polychrome silks in Florentine stitch. The design is outlined in black ink and is part of a larger composition representing the judgement of Paris; only part of the sky, columns and the foreground have been worked. Above her a hand with a thunderbolt at her feet a peacock; Minerva is placed in the centre with her spears on the ground, on the right sits Venus in the clouds in a chariot of doves, to her right sits Cupid, a serpent and two hearts, one transfixed with arrows the other burning. Above the clouds sits Mercury.
Embroidery
Identification numbers
Accession number: T.138-1938
Primary reference Number: 110958
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 17 July 2020
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
