IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 209294 accession number: T.7B-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 19 July 2016 updated: Thursday 7 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Isaac married Rebecca and had twin sons, Esau and Jacob. As an old man Isaac became blind. When he was nearing his death, he prepared to follow the custom of blessing his oldest son over a meal, signalling that this son should inherit his father’s goods and wealth. Esau was sent out hunting for meat for the meal (visible in the background). Rebecca, however, considered that Jacob, the younger twin, should inherit. When she saw Esau go out, she realized what was about to happen. She quickly cooked simpler food which Jacob would offer his father before receiving the blessing. There was one problem. Esau was smooth-skinned but Jacob was, in the Bible’s words, 'an hairy man'. So while his mother held the bed curtain open Jacob knelt before his father with goatskin gloves on his hands and a goatskin round his neck so that his blind father, working only by feel, would not notice that he was about to bless the wrong son. In the horizontal borders the weaver depicts hunting scenes; dogs chase a stag in the upper border and a fox in the lower border. Each huntsman wears differently coloured clothes; some with silver threads in their breeches. The vertical borders, like those of T.7A-1961, are designed in three sections; top and bottom are two different arrangements of fruit and flowers separated by the small figure of an armed man within a semi-circular frame. Two birds perch above it. The corners of the arch in the centre of the tapestry were decorated with different flowers: a carnation (left) and borage (right). Biblical source: Genesis 27:1-29 object type: Panel for a cushion cover, woven tapestry in 'Sheldon' style, depicting the biblical story of Isaac blessing Jacob. One of a pair, the other (T.7A-1961) depicting the sacrifice of Isaac. title: panel LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Louis Colville Gray Clarke STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/209294 TECHNIQUES ---------- tapestry (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: tapestry DATING ------ creation date: 1558 - 1603 creation date earliest: 1558 creation date latest: 1603 culture: Elizabethan CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 52.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 48.2 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/large_t_7b_1961_1_201401_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 945 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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