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    The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries are a group of four medieval tapestries, probably woven in Arras, Artois, France, between about 1430 and 1450. The tapestries...
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    Unicorn), stored in l'Hôtel de Cluny, Paris. The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, four Flemish tapestries dating from the mid-fifteenth century depict men...
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    Hunts of Maximilian (category Tapestries)
    Orley drawings. Sets of hunting scenes had long been a popular subject in tapestry, with sets like the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries (1430–1450, V&A), perhaps...
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    Graal tapestries are a set of six tapestries depicting scenes from the legend of King Arthur and the quest for the Holy Grail. The tapestries were commissioned...
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    surviving European tapestry. A highlight of the collection is the four Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, very rare 15th-century tapestries, woven in the Netherlands...
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    the Heroes Tapestries) | South Netherlandish". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 26 November 2023. "The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries". V&A. Retrieved...
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    extending right to the top of the picture space. The early Devonshire Hunting Tapestries (1420s) have naturalistic landscape backgrounds, seen from a...
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  • It is now kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Devonshire Hunting Tapestries woven. 1423: Gentile, Adoration of the Magi 1424: Masaccio,...
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    Hunter, in Tapestries; Their Origin, History And Renaissance, 1912, calls it The Star of Bethlehem."The Morris Tapestry Works At Merton". Tapestries; Their...
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    miles (14 km) west of Chesterfield, England. The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has belonged to the Cavendish family since 1549. It stands on the...
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    centuries in the Cavendish family and the line of the Earl of Devonshire and the Duke of Devonshire, ownership of the house was transferred to the Treasury...
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    the French in 1695 and are now known only from descriptions and from a tapestry copy in the Historical Museum of Bern. The work is thought to have preoccupied...
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    sons of Harold in 1069". Report and Transactions. 146. Barnstable: The Devonshire Association: 33–56. ISSN 0309-7994. OCLC 5840886678. Barlow, Frank (1970)...
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    Reniseneb Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke Hounds and Jackals The Unicorn Tapestries Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow Kettle Drums Kneeling Bull with Vessel...
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    Geographical Reality". Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 148. The Devonshire Association: 89–130. ISSN 0309-7994. Retrieved 9 May...
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    style. Boucher participated in all of the genres of the time, designing tapestries, models for porcelain sculpture, set decorations for the Paris Opera and...
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  • belonged to the painter Peter Lely. In the "rainbow room" are tapestries from the Mortlake Tapestry Works, which was rescued from bankruptcy by Ralph Montagu...
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    the tapestry dining room, an inner room of the east side to the east of the Wooton Hall. Aside from the two fine vividly constructed tapestries, one...
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    his son a large treasury. Henry VIII spent heavily on luxuries, such as tapestries and palaces, but his peacetime budget was generally satisfactory. The...
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  • 8th (The King's) 9th (East Norfolk) 10th (North Lincoln) 11th (North Devonshire) 12th (East Suffolk) 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry)...
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  • The first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Germaine de Staël 1766 France, Switzerland Mary...
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    American politician (b. 1626) November 23 – William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, English noble (b. 1617) December 10 – Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet...
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