IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110958 accession number: T.138-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 17 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Picture with cream canvas worked with polychrome silks in Florentine stitch. title: picture LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Longman Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110958 TECHNIQUES ---------- 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. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidery CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1701 - 1801 creation date earliest: 1701 creation date latest: 1801 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 23.1/2 dimension: Width units: in value: 23