FDA-D.758-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.758-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Cartoon for the Tapestry 'St George Leaving Home'
Description
Cartoon for a tapestry
Comments
This design represents scene one in a series of four tapestries.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 1250mm
width (sight size): 2150mm
height (frame): 1360mm
width (frame): 2260mm
depth (frame): 67mm
width (sight size): 2150mm
height (frame): 1360mm
width (frame): 2260mm
depth (frame): 67mm
Materials & techniques note
Gouache, watercolour and body colour over pencil; on 5 sheets of paper
Note: Before before conservation work in 2020, the following observations were made: These works are painted in gouache, possibly oil tempered, on three separate sheets of paper, which is then on linen, on a five bar stretcher.
Note: Before before conservation work in 2020, the following observations were made: These works are painted in gouache, possibly oil tempered, on three separate sheets of paper, which is then on linen, on a five bar stretcher.
Physical description
Plain wooden frame, painted black
Production
Person
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Presented to Eton College by Viscount Chilston during the 1960s
[See: Eton College Archives, COLL P 10 30]
[See: Eton College Archives, COLL P 10 30]
