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LENT BY HER MAJESTY AND THE BOARD OF WORKS.
Tapestry; ground crimson, diapered with foliage;
design, within a broad arch, a white panel,
figured with Diana, and about her flowers, birds,
and animals, dead and alive. At the right corner,
on the lower hem, is inscribed, "Neilson, ex. 1786." French,
from the Gobelin factory.
Diana holds by a long blue ribbon a greyhound; below, are other
two hounds and two little naked boys, of whom one is about to dart an
arrow; the other, to shoot one from a bow at Diana herself, who, with
her shadow cast upon a cloud, is holding her favourite dog by its blue
string: at her feet lie her own bow and arrows. This piece is graciously
lent by Her Majesty, and is a favourable specimen of the Gobelins
royal manufactory, over which the Neilsons, father and son, presided,
from A.D. 1749 till 1788. Most likely this piece was wrought by the
elder Neilson, who, as well as his son, worked with the "basse lisse,"
or low horizontal frame, as distinguished from the "haute lisse," or
high vertical one.
Tapestry Wall-hanging; design, a landscape with
the figure of a man. French, 17th century.
The landscape is somewhat wild, but nicely rendered. In the foreground,
sitting on a stone, we have a youth with both his hands upon a
classic-shaped vase, standing between his feet. In the background are
