The Toilet of the Princess Maker: John Vanderbank the Elder (British, active 1689–1717)

ca. 1700

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Wool and silk

Dimensions

134 × 154 in. (340.4 × 391.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Edward S. Harkness, B.A. 1897

Accession Number

1926.31

Culture

British

Period

18th century

Classification

Textiles

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Provenance
Active 1689-1717; woven for Elihu Yale on the loom of the Royal Great Wardrobe in Great Queen St., London; purchased from French &Co. - called Soho Tapestries of Indian Scenes - from Glenham Hall.
Bibliography
  • Edith A. Standen, "Studies in the History of Tapestry, 1520–1790: Some Exotic Subjects," Apollo 114 (July 1981), 46–47, fig. 7
  • Edith A. Standen, "English Tapestries "After the Indian Manner"," Metropolitan Museum Journal 15 (1981), 119–23, 125–28, 134–35, 138–39
  • 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1952), 46, 76, no. 108
  • "Yale Gallery Given Important Tapestries," New Haven Register (June 1, 1932),
  • Margaret T. J. Rowe, "An Important New Tapestry," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University vo. 10, no. 1 (November 1931), 1–2
  • William George Thomson, A History of Tapestry from the Earliest Times until the Present Day (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930), 361–62, ill
  • A.F. Kendrick, "The Yale Tapestries," Old Furniture: A Magazine of Domestic Ornament vol. 2 (October–December 1927), 162, 164, 166–67, ill
  • John Walker Harrington, "Yale Tapestries as Textile Treasures," Antiquarian 8 (April 1927), 43–46, ill
  • William Tappan, "The Tapestries of Elihu Yale," International Studio (December 1925), 209–214, ill
  • "Yale Tapestries," Time 4, no. 4 (July 28, 1924), 19
  • "Glemham Hall, Suffolk, a Seat of the Earl of Guilford," Country Life (1910), 25
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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