Author: Digby, George W. & Wendy Hefford.
Title: The Devonshire hunting tapestries. Victoria and Albert Museum
Description: London, Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1971. 92 pp. 42 b./w. text ills & 41 col. / b./w. plts, incl. 4 double-page fold-out plts. Orig. hardcover (grey cloth), no d./j. Square 4to. Monograp on the The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, four very large and beautifully designed tapestries made between 1430 - 1450, depicting hunting scenes of boars, bears, swans, otters, deer and falconry. Very few tapestries of this scale and quality of design have survived. The tapestries were probably made in Arras, in modern day France - a centre famed for supplying the courts of France and Burgundy with magnificent wall hangings. They were acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1957 from the estate of The Dukes of Devonshire. - Text in English.

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