Production: Unknown
Picture with cream canvas worked with polychrome silks in Florentine stitch.
The design is outlined in black ink and is part of a larger composition representing the judgement of Paris; only part of the sky, columns and the foreground have been worked. Above Paris we see a hand with a thunderbolt, at her feet a peacock; Minerva is placed in the centre with her spears on the ground, on the right sits Venus in the clouds in a chariot of doves, to her right sits Cupid with a serpent and two hearts, one transfixed with arrows the other burning. Above the clouds sits Mercury.
Longman Bequest
Height: 23.1/2 in
Width: 23 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Longman
18th Century
Circa
1701
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Circa
1801
Weaving
: Picture with cream canvas worked with polychrome silks in Florentine stitch. The design is outlined in black ink and is part of a larger composition representing the judgement of Paris; only part of the sky, columns and the foreground have been worked. Above her a hand with a thunderbolt at her feet a peacock; Minerva is placed in the centre with her spears on the ground, on the right sits Venus in the clouds in a chariot of doves, to her right sits Cupid, a serpent and two hearts, one transfixed with arrows the other burning. Above the clouds sits Mercury.
Embroidery
Accession number: T.138-1938
Primary reference Number: 110958
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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