IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77888 accession number: T.1-1953 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 19 May 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: This tapestry shows three scenes from the Old Testament story of Tobias and the Angel. Each is framed by an arch and separated by a cherub; different flowers decorate the corners. The tapestry scenes do not follow the order of the Bible story. In the first, Tobias, son of Tobit and Anna, sets out on a journey with his dog and an angelic companion, Raphael. They were to collect a debt owed by Tobit’s cousin. On the way, shown in the second scene, the Angel makes Tobias catch a large fish and keep its guts for medicinal purposes. The story, but not the tapestry, continues with the adventures of Tobias with his cousin’s family; he was made so welcome that a marriage was arranged with his cousin’s daughter. She had already been married seven times, and on each occasion a demon caused the groom to die on his wedding night. Tobias, however, burned part of the fish guts and conquered the demon. Married, he now returns home, the last scene on the tapestry. Tobias is welcomed home by his mother. His father, still blind, sits inside. There would probably have been another square cushion showing the end of the story, depicting Tobias using the last bits of the fish to cure his father’s blindness. The borders show fruit, flowers, birds and hunters. Diagonally opposite each other top and bottom are thrushes with speckled breasts perched amongst leaves. Towards the corners a clover-leaf motif leads the eye into the two different arrangements of fruit and flowers that decorate the side borders, separated by the figure of an armed man. Although the drawing is the same, their clothing is differently coloured. The weaver showed different hunting scenes in the top and bottom borders. In the background of the upper border, ducks swim in the moat of a large house; in the lower border, huntsmen chase a fox. Biblical references: Book of Tobit, scene 1 – 5:16; scene 2 – 6:2-4; scene 3 – 11:9 object type: Cushion cover, woven tapestry in 'Sheldon' style, depicting three scenes from the biblical story of Tobias and the Angel. title: cushion cover NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from R. Ellis Lyons LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought using the Grace Clarke Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77888 TECHNIQUES ---------- tapestry (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: tapestry DATING ------ creation date: 1575 - 1599 creation date earliest: 1575 creation date latest: 1599 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 52.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 101 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/large_t_1_1953_1_201401_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 596 pixels width: 1023 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_t_1_1953_1_201401_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 291 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: 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