IDENTIFIERS
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id:	77888
accession number:	T.1-1953

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 19 May 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: Bought from R. Ellis Lyons


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bought using the Grace Clarke Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77888





TECHNIQUES
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tapestry (process)

CATEGORIES
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category: tapestry

DATING
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creation date:	1575 - 1599
creation date earliest:	1575
creation date latest:	1599
culture:	16th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 52.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 101



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