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DATING AND ATTR1BUTIONS thm wm a considcrablt opon of gik leathcr 10 Spoin, which no doobt Kawon for the cxmcnce of idcntical design* in both counaies. A study of rmbociing płatu and mouldi ■ip coucavabły throw somc light on ihc qnuuon of origin, parócuhriy wherc ptownance could be otabluhed, but the teaich for thesc bas to fiu been fruidm. The ody known examplc anywhere ii the woodcn mould owned bjr ibe Yicuria and Albett Muscum.¹ Tbat was pmented nearły a centurjr ago by an art dealer, Murray Marks, and nothing is known of its hissoiy. lis design is not Spanish, nekher ił it ouichcd by aoyduiy moi ehewhere: there ate stylittic groundt fot thinking that it might be English. No hanging of this design has been discovered, although the mould bas manifudy been used. A representation of foor panek showing the 'rcpcat' has been phoaogyauphically built up (Platę 43) and the auchor would be happy 10 be informed of any hangings cocmpooding thereto.

Finally, tefeenct should be madę to the pnetkt of paiming pictorial devicu on pOm eci. This was probably dcvdopcd in Spain, at least as earły as the soteenth ccncury (Platę 21) for ccdcsiasdcal purposes soch as akar-fiontak and rctables. Al fint the paintings wm quite smali bot before long there arów the practicc of paindng lirge and showy narrativc pictures on sihrered compositc lcatlicr panek in a style suggested by wooOcn tapcnrics. The only cxample known sbll to exist in Engbnd is the set ofhangingt depiedng cpoodu in the story of Anthony and Cleopaoa, now in Dumter Castk, Somenct; but there must once łuvc been many morę figured hangings of this charactcr. An invcntoiy madc at Kenilwotth in 1588 lisa no fcwer thiniwenty-cight ttts (somc 170

teparatc hangings) of pictorial 'upestries' painted on gile lathcr, and illustraring soch sobjeets as 'Susannah', 'The Prodigall Childc*. 'Alecaodcr the Great*, 'Judith and Holofemci', ‘Jczcbcll’, ‘David\ ‘Hercules’, ‘Sampson’ and others describcd as ‘forest work’. Detaili in the inventory suggest that somc at least were Flcmish. Thesc hangings appartndy disappeared when Cromwellian troops disnuntlcd the Cattle.

In the Swcdish Royal Colleoion thae are rwo sets of soch hangings: one depacts the Turkisb siege ofVienna of 168); the other is bascd on a seria of mythological paintings by the Swcdish Cotnt painter Ehrenstrahl (1629-1698). In the National Muscum, Copcnhagen, is anochcr seria of gik leatha hangings which came from the Judand country house of Gamie Estrup. Thae are dccorated with large chinoiserie figura and m thought to datę from the carly eightccnth ccntury. A French writer, La Querićrc,^a rccocded, in 1830, that less than two yearj pceriously there were 10 be scen in an old house in the ruc de la Grooc Horloge, Rouen, seven large panek of gdt lathcr bearing painted

¹ Iny. No. Wa-ipu, on kaa w ibo Muicum ofŁeaihercnft

• U OoWtf, Eiwachr dc, Rtthrnki m U Ok Dni, atamemnt epptUtf hm/, tl Datrlpóm k Piukrt WUUM fywfrrtfi t ggm dr 4tor, Kmito. 1810.

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