Swing. Watteau, Jean Antoine (French, 1684-1721) (designed after) [painter] Pater, Jean-Baptiste Joseph (French, 1695-1736) (designed after) [painter] Bradshaw, George Smith (British, 1717-1812) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1730-1760 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: English Weaving Center: London Ownership History: Earl of Dysart. French & Co. England, Greater London, Ham, Ham House. Inscriptions: Woven signature in lower guard, right [not visible in photograph]: BRADSHAW Couple talking (R, foreground), urn on pedestal (L, middle ground), group playing games (center, middle ground
Swing. Watteau, Jean Antoine (French, 1684-1721) (designed after) [painter] Pater, Jean-Baptiste Joseph (French, 1695-1736) (designed after) [painter] Bradshaw, George Smith (British, 1717-1812) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1730-1760 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: English Weaving Center: London Ownership History: Earl of Dysart. French & Co. England, Greater London, Ham, Ham House. Inscriptions: Woven signature in lower guard, right [not visible in photograph]: BRADSHAW Couple talking (R, foreground), urn on pedestal (L, middle ground), group playing games (center, middle ground), woman on swing, pushed by man (L of center, background) (BRD) frame-like string of quatrefoils within discs, interspersed with 3 cartouches on each side & each corner 4th Earl of Dysart (Lyonel Tollemache) made payment for tapestry set in May 1744 to George Smith Bradshaw. French & Flemish tapestries of similar subject are based on the "Italian Comedy" or "Fêtes Venitiennes". However, Bradshaw produced a totally new suite of scenes based on pictures by Watteau. This scene is designed on Watteau's "Plaisirs Champêtres" at Chantilly & "Les Bergers" at Potsdam, among other pictures by Watteau. No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Marillier, English Tapestries (1930), 123-125, pl. 47b Tomlin, Ham House (1986), 74-76 Edwards, Ham House (1959), 52, 53 Thornton, Furniture History 16 (1980), 181, fig. 157 Thomson, History of Tapestry (1930), 491 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0181848-0181852, 0184129-0184134 (set A); other similar sets: GCPA 0181853-0181857, 0184135 (set B), 0181858-0181862, 0184540-0184541, 0188263, 0184824 (set C), 0181863-0181866, 0184136 (set D)
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