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A ROYAL WINDSOR TAPESTRY FROM THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR SERIES
Lot 285

A ROYAL WINDSOR TAPESTRY FROM THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR SERIES

CIRCA 1878, DESIGNED BY T.W. HAY

Closed1 October 2013

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A ROYAL WINDSOR TAPESTRY FROM THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR SERIES
CIRCA 1878, DESIGNED BY T.W. HAY
Depicting Anne Page and Fenton standing in a wooded landscape within a border of turquoise panels filled with stylised plants, marked with a stylised crown above 'I I' and 'H.H. & M.B. N.6' and signed T.W. Hay
74 x 84 in. (188 x 214 cm.)

Specialist note

The initials are those of Henri C. J. Henry, the Director, and Michel Brignolas, the weaver/dyer and manager of the Windsor Tapestry Manufactory. N 6 is the tapestry number in the series of 9, including the tapestry portrait of Queen Victoria.
The Old Windsor Tapestry Manufactory was one of only two tapestry works to be established in England in the 19th Century, the other being that of William Morrisat Merton Abbey, The Manufactory enjoyed royal patronage as Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the youngest son of Queen Victoria, enthusiastically supported the project, becoming its President.