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NOTES TO THE PLATES

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Sc Michael and Sc. Ambony of P*dua; chcce can be licde doubc chat thc riniin Spam*. Esecutrd on B «*mp*d gik ground. Pcrhaps irom an akar-bonul (Jp^ 15 and ad). • ‘_t s~!i^!r, . I,

Dimcnuora: o*61 x 0-77 m. (14 x soj in.)

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Spasali; scvcntccntfa cencury.

A rdigKHM Picture - thc Legend!of S( Vcromca - paineed on a gili leacher ground. wl„ch ą band pcinched and deconued wirh ggrtffito work.

OimcniMMu: o*j«x o-2B m. («5x n in.)

Vktońś ani Atber! Muteum, Lrmiim

Such panek an no be (bund in sevcral Spanish collcctions.

Pb*tf //Wij (Plsuc 23-fuli cołour)

Probably Flemttb; scvcncccn(h ccnrury.

Plasr aaa Amony mnan Clcopatra: che cairack in which ahe and her rednue had travelied fiom Egypt, can be scen chrough che window on thc Right.

Place lab Ldi, Clcopatra applies an asp 10 her brcasc: right. Amony, profemng a daggtr, begs his attendant to kill him: according to tradition be commined suicidc. Plaac as The Triumvirate - Cacsar. Amony and Leptdus.

In Place 23 che narrow pand (Aankcd by iwo 'caryands') is almosc certainly part of a largcr one. Platę aab is now a oompoaicc pścturc madę np from para of two originally separacc sceno.

The Duracer hangjngs. now tevcn in all. have becn cut abouc and alcered in various ways, perfum in adapting chem co thc spore they now occupy. The caryatids were no doubi iruroduccd as spaoe-EUets, and che floral bordets ate pcrhaps of laser datę chan che nairadve panek.

Thesc hangings are imications of Flcmi&h tapestries and cłus suggests chat chey too wae produccd in Flanden. Indced, one scenc in chtt senes u closcly similar co a tapestry hsnging desagned by Julius van Egmom (1601-74) in 1661. Thehaimyles andcmeumesaceofakind which suggmc a dacc in che middle of che cencury. Howevex, otber largc-figure Icachrr hangings soch as thesc were certainly produccd already in che siatrenth cencury (cherc wcrc sotne as Keniiworth Castlc in !$>*). and is is curious chat nonę appear co hm survived. The Dunsccr set ts therefore of cspccial impoctancc for che scudy of gile leacher hangings.

Dimensions: The awerage pand is 0*7* m. (j 1 in.) widc.

Sec J. Watcrcr. 'Dunsccr Castlc. Somcrscc. and ńs paineed leacher hangings’. 7*r Cm*-nwr, XXXX. Phocographs tcproduced by courtcsy of 7V Cmmearemr.

Ehmuter Cnstlf, Somertet

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