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FDA-D.761-2010

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Object number

FDA-D.761-2010

Object type

Identification

Title

Cartoon for the Tapestry 'St George Appears to Three Saints'

Description

Cartoon for a tapestry

Comments

This design represents scene four in a series of four tapestries.
This design represents scene one in a series of four tapestries.

Description

Content (person)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 1240mm
width (sight size): 2140mm
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.

Physical description

Plain wood moulding, painted black

Production

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]
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