Hezekiah crushes idols. unknown c. 1560-1580 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'11" x W 13'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (New York) 4/3/1930 (Vitall Benguiat & Leopold Benguiat sale); sold to Bob Jones University 9/28/1960. Inscriptions: City mark on lower guard, right; unidentified weaver mark on right guard, bottom Inscriptions: Inscription in central field, identifying figure on hems of garmet: [I]EHISKIA Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border banderole

Hezekiah crushes idols. unknown c. 1560-1580 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'11" x W 13'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (New York) 4/3/1930 (Vitall Benguiat & Leopold Benguiat sale); sold to Bob Jones University 9/28/1960. Inscriptions: City mark on lower guard, right; unidentified weaver mark on right guard, bottom Inscriptions: Inscription in central field, identifying figure on hems of garmet: [I]EHISKIA Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border banderole: NVNC RENONVANT Inscriptions: Inscription in lower guard, center: FIDES In landscape, crowned Hezekiah holding scepter, has 2 men break idols & Moses' brazen serpent (2 Kings 18-20; 2 Chronicles 29-32) (BRD) garland of oversize flowers & fruit, brackets in corners with standing & seated male figures; (UPR BRD) headed by banderole with inscription; (LWR BRD) centered by female figure Exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1933 & at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 1936 (Stock sheet). French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 36363-b Göbel, Wandteppiche I:2 (1923), 8 (appendix) Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0239025-0239027; unidentified weaver also made another set of same series now in Stockholm (museum not specified; see Göbel)

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