A CHARLES I PANEL OF EMBROIDERED LINEN

CIRCA 1630

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A CHARLES I PANEL OF EMBROIDERED LINEN
Circa 1630
Worked in tent stitch with colored silks depicting Orpheus charming the animals with his music, the legendary Thracian poet in his Roman togate type, plucking a lyre, seated beneath a pomegranate tree, flanked by edifices on hilltops in the background, lemon and apple trees to the sides, surrounded by land, sea and air creatures, framed
27½ x 61½in. (70 x 155cm.), the panel

出版

A.F. Kendrick, 'Tudor Embroideries in the Collection of Sir Frederick Richmond, Bart', The Connoisseur, vol. 99, pl. VII, p. 147.

展覽

London, 15, Portman Square, W.I., Exhibition of English Needlework Past and Present in aid of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution, 19 February-12 March 1934, catalogue no. 390.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, on loan in 1964.

拍品專文

Metamorphoses by Ovid (43B.C.-A.D.17/18) 10:86-105. Such was his musical skill that Orpheus charmed not only the wild beasts but also the trees and and rocks which would come after him at the sound of his lyre. Here the artist has used the subject to represent the Messiah at whose coming "the wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid". The ox and the lion at Orpheus' feet draw further parallels with the evangelists Luke and Mark.

The design derives from Thomas Johnson's A Booke of Beast, Birds, Flowers, Fruits, Flies, and Wormes of circa 1630.