Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . u-tiful white bull, into which, it will be remembered, he transformedhimself for the purpose of beguiling the maiden Europa, with whomupon his back he swam across the Hellespont, now called theDardanelles, where the battleships of the Allies tried to destroy theTurkish forts on the way to Constantinople, and which Lord
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . u-tiful white bull, into which, it will be remembered, he transformedhimself for the purpose of beguiling the maiden Europa, with whomupon his back he swam across the Hellespont, now called theDardanelles, where the battleships of the Allies tried to destroy theTurkish forts on the way to Constantinople, and which Lord Byron,in emulation of Jupiter, and of Leander, the story of whose love forHero is pictured in a set of Mortlake tapestries in the Royal Swedishcollection, swam at the beginning of the nineteenth century. TheTransformation of Jupiter is one of eight tapestries designed forBeauvais (see Chapter XV) by Jean Baptiste Oudry, the famous artdirector of Beauvais and later of the Gobelins, to whose efficiency wasdue the extraordinary prosperity of the Beauvais works in the secondquarter of the eighteenth century, and consequently of the Aubussonworks that copied Beauvais models. The largest of the five of theset now in America pictures the Palace of Circe, and all illustrate 237. Plate VII—The Strife of Agamemnon and Achilles
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