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SAMPLERS AND
TAPESTRY EMBROIDERIES

 

 

Tho our Countrie everywhere is fil’d
With ladies and with gentlewomen skil’d
In this rare art, yet here they may discerne
Some things to teach them if they list to learne
And as this booke some cunning workes doth teach
Too high for meane capacities to reache
So for weake learners other workes here be
As plaine and easie as an A B C.
—The Needle’s Excellency.

 

 


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Plate I.—Tapestry Embroidery. Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth.
The Corporation of Maidstone.

(Frontispiece.)

The very unusual piece of Embroidery reproduced as our Frontispiece maydate from the Accession of Queen Elizabeth, in which case it is theearliest specimen of an embroidery picture that we have seen. It wouldappear to be the creation of some exultant Protestant rejoicing at therestoration of his religion, which to him is “Good tidings of great joy”;for his Queen holds the Bible open at this verse, and is ready to defendit with her sword. Edward VI. also upholds the Bible in his upraised hand,whilst Henry VIII. has one foot on the downtrodden Pope, and the other onhis crown, which he has kicked from his head. Popery is portrayed in Marywith her Rosary and Papal-crowned Dragon. The presence of the Thistleraises a doubt as to its being of the Elizabethan age, but although thisflower consorts with the Rose it also does so with a pansy, which deprivesit of its value as an emblem of Scotland. The piece belongs to the Corporation of Maidstone.

 

 

SAMPLERS & TAPESTRY
EMBROIDERIES

 

BY
MARCUS B. HUISH, LL.B.
Author of “Japan and its Art,” “Greek Terra Cotta Statuettes”
“The American Pilgrim’s Way,” &c.

 

SECOND EDITION

WITH 24 COLOURED PLATES AND
77 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

 

 

 

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
1913
All rights reserved

 

 

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