Lot Essay
See Wace (A.J.B.), Apollo, vol. XVII, no. 101, 1933, p.208, fig. IV, and Connoisseur, 1937, A.F. Kendrick, plate V, p. 146.
The left-hand side of this embroidery, Tobias removing the liver and heart from the Fish, derives from the woodcut by Bernard Saloman (circa 1508-1561, Lyons) in Biblia Sacra. Published by Jean de Tournes, Lyons, 1558, p.478.
The left-hand side of this embroidery, Tobias removing the liver and heart from the Fish, derives from the woodcut by Bernard Saloman (circa 1508-1561, Lyons) in Biblia Sacra. Published by Jean de Tournes, Lyons, 1558, p.478.