'The Annunciation', a fine pitch Morris & Co. Merton Abbey Tapestry, after the 15th. Century original by Fra Lippo Lippi, silk warp, red, blue and green wool, with silk thread details, in gilt gesso frame, woven by John Martin and Gordon Berry, 1911

細節

'The Annunciation', a fine pitch Morris & Co. Merton Abbey Tapestry, after the 15th. Century original by Fra Lippo Lippi, silk warp, red, blue and green wool, with silk thread details, in gilt gesso frame, woven by John Martin and Gordon Berry, 1911
206cm. high x 91cm. wide

出版

H.C. Marillier, History of the Merton Abbey Tapestry Works, 1927, p. 24 & 36
Linda Parry, William Morris Textiles, 1983, p. 118

展覽

Costume and Textiles, Spink and Sons, London, December 1990, cat. no. 97

拍品專文

This work was one of a number of reproductions from old cartoons undertaken by the Merton Abbey Works in the early twentieth century. Marillier describes the tapestry as a '...tour de force, an exquisite little tapestry in very fine pitch ...'. The work does not appear to have been woven to order, but was acquired by St. Mary's Convent, Chiswick in 1919.