VIII.—Elizabethan Sheldon Tapestries

John Humphreys

doi:10.1017/S0261340900013126

VIII.—Elizabethan Sheldon Tapestries

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John Humphreys

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For many centuries, though a good many tapestries were woven in France, Flanders was the chief centre of the industry, and supplied the various European countries with tapestries and hangings of a similar character. Cloths of Arras were in demand for English country houses, and large purchases were made from time to time by the richer nobles. It was, however, at the beginning of the sixteenth century that tapestries came increasingly into demand and favour in England, as is evident by the fine collection made by Cardinal Wolsey for Hampton Court, and that of King Henry VIII for his own palaces. The inventory taken after his death records over 2,000 specimens, while a writer states that ‘one ship from the Continent carried no less than one thousand tapestries for the King of England’. Agents were employed in Flanders to secure the finest specimens as they were woven.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 74 , 1925 , pp. 181 - 202

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900013126 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1925

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^{page 181 note 1} Perrin's Description of the Kingdom of England and Scotland.

^{page 181 note 2} Morgan, , Readings in English Social History, p. 256.Google Scholar

^{page 182 note 1} Thompson, W. G., Tapestry Weaving in England, p. 29.Google Scholar

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^{page 183 note 2} Nash, op. cit. There is an illustration of it in Thomas's edition of Dugdale's, Warwickshire, vol. i, p. 582.Google Scholar

^{page 184 note 1} ‘William Willington of Barcheston ’, from the Evesham Journal, 1924, by Mr. Rees Price, F.S.A.

^{page 184 note 2} Black Book of Warwick, p. 48, ed. by Thomas Kemp.

^{page 185 note 1} Book of John Fisher, Town Clerk, Warwick, pp. 176, 177, ed. by Thomas Kemp.

^{page 186 note 1} Francis Hicks was of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford.

^{page 186 note 2} Humphreys, , ‘The Elizabethan Estate book of Grafton Manor’, in Trans. Birmingham Arch. Soc. xliv, 7.Google Scholar

^{page 188 note 1} Thomson, W. G., Tapestry Weaving in England, p. 59.Google Scholar

^{page 188 note 2} About £8 to £15 a square foot (according to subject and fineness) is charged in London to-day.

^{page 189 note 1} Handbook of English Sixteenth-Century Tapestries, Victoria and Albert Museum; Tapestry Portfolio, iii, 1915; Catalogue of Tapestries, 1924.

^{page 193 note 1} See Catalogue of Tapeslries, 1924, pl. 11.

^{page 197 note 1} Robert Laneham, an account of Festivities given to Queen Elizabeth on her visit at Kenilworth in 1579, P. 156.

^{page 198 note 1} Kendrick, A. F., ‘Coventry Tapestry’, Burlington Magazine, no. ccli, vol. xliv, February 1924Google Scholar.

^{page 198 note 2} Thomson, W. G., Tapestry Weaving in England, p. 46.Google Scholar

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