IDENTIFIERS
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id:	209293
accession number:	T.7A-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 19 July 2016
updated:	Thursday 7 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: This tapestry depicts the sacrifice of Isaac. Isaac became the leader of his people. But when he was a child his father Abraham received a message from God telling him that he must offer his son as a sacrifice, rather than the more usual sheep or goat. The tapestry shows the moment just before Isaac’s killing: Abraham has his sword raised to strike his son when an angel appears and tells him to stop. The angel points to a ram trapped in a bush nearby and tells Abraham to kill it as an offering. Their two servants are shown watching in the background and the town from which they all came is seen beyond that.
In the horizontal borders the weaver depicts hunting scenes, including the pursuit of a fox that had stolen a goose. Each huntsman wears differently coloured clothes; some with silver threads in their breeches.
The side borders are alike in this piece and its pair (T.7B-1961) and are designed in three sections; top and bottom are two different arrangements of fruit and flowers separated by the small figure of an armed man within a semi-circular frame. Two birds perch above it.
The corners of the arch in the centre of the tapestry were decorated with different flowers, a carnation (left) and borage (right). A caterpillar crawls down the right-hand side.
Biblical source: Genesis 22:1-14
object type: Panel for a cushion cover, woven tapestry in 'Sheldon' style, depicting the biblical story of the sacrifice of Isaac. One of a pair, the other (T.7B-1961) depicting Isaac blessing Jacob.
title:	panel

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequeathed by Louis Colville Gray Clarke

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/209293





TECHNIQUES
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tapestry (process)

CATEGORIES
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category: tapestry

DATING
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creation date:	1558 - 1603
creation date earliest:	1558
creation date latest:	1603
culture:	Elizabethan

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 52.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 48.2



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