The Palanquin

Artist: John Vanderbank the Elder (British, active 1689–1717)

1690–1710

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Wool and silk

Dimensions

132 1/2 × 126 in. (336.55 × 320.04 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

1932.130

Culture

British

Period

17th–18th century

Classification

Textiles

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography
  • "An Elihu Yale Tapestry," The Connoisseur (July 1933), ill
  • "Yale Gallery Given Important Tapestries," New Haven Register (June 1, 1932),
  • "Harkness Gives Noted Tapestry to Yale," New York Times (May 29, 1932),
  • "An Elihu Yale Tapestry," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University (October 1932), 142–43, ill
  • William George Thomson, A History of Tapestry from the Earliest Times until the Present Day (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930), 361–62, ill
  • "Glemham Hall, Suffolk, a Seat of the Earl of Guilford," Country Life (1910), 22, 25, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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