Identifier: decorativetextil1918hunt (find matches)
Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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aring the Latin inscription Sceptrafavent artes, the favent being an error for fovent, and the meaning:Kings foster the arts. This tapestry also carries in the bottomselvage, now misapplied on the right, the Mortlake shield and themonogram of Philip de Maecht. The three Vulcan and Venustapestries, formerly lent to the Metropolitan Museum by Philip Hiss,belong to a later set, without gold and of smaller size, but having amost romantic history. (See my 1912 book on Tapestries.) Another set of Renaissance cartoons copied at Mortlake wascertayne drawings of Raphaell of Urbin, which were desseignes fortapestries made for Pope Leo the X, for which Prince Charlesinstructed Sir Francis to send to Genoa. These are the seven (out ofthe original set of ten) famous Raphael cartoons now on exhibitionat the Victoria and Albert Museum. A set of the tapestries wovenfrom them, rich with gold, is preserved in the French Nationalcollection. It is a splendid monument to the skill of Mortlake weavers. 303
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13 o J2 as Ch C < « u W ^X mH5 o „OS -a w £K so GOBELINS, BEAUVAIS, MORTLAKE TAPESTRIES The cartouche in the bottom border bears the inscription (Plate XII)Car. re. reg. Mort., which, spelled out, is Carolo rege regnante Mort-lake, and means At Mortlake in the reign of King Charles. Other famous sets woven at Mortlake were: The NakedBoyes, after Giulio Romano; Hero and Leander, after FrancisCleyn; the Horses, after Francis Cleyn; the Twelve Months,after Lucas van Ley den. The Royal Swedish collection contains theonly set that has been preserved of Hero and Leander. It is richwith gold. The Triumph of Julius Caesar, after the nine paintingsby Mantegna, still preserved at Hampton Court, appears to have beenput on the looms in the reign of Charles II, from cartoons ordered byCromwell. The death of Sir Francis Crane in 1636, and the troubles ofKing Charles, ended the prosperity of the Mortlake Tapestry Works,which dragged out a precarious existence during the rest of thecentury, an

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