Fruit gathering. 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: BRADSHAW Man on ladder gathering fruit & lady holds up her apron collecting fruit (L), seated couple, lady & child kneel in front of larg
Fruit gathering. 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: BRADSHAW Man on ladder gathering fruit & lady holds up her apron collecting fruit (L), seated couple, lady & child kneel in front of large basket & standing couple (L of center), man offers seated woman flower (center), peacock perched on stone pedestal (L) (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 partly based on either "Diavolo Player" or "L'Indifferent" at the Louvre (man offering flower in center), "Départ pour Cythère" (woman on ground in center), Pater's "Colin Maillard" at Hertford House (couple on left) & Watteau's "Mariée de Village". Inscription is not apparent in photograph. No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Marillier, English Tapestries (1930), 123-125, pl. 47a 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), opp. p. 488, illus., p. 491 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0181848-0181852, 0184129-0184134 (set A); compositionally similar tapestry: GCPA 0181855; other similar sets: GCPA 0181853-0181857, 0184135 (set B), 0181858-0181862, 0184540-0184541, 0188263, 0184824 (set C), 0181863-0181866, 01
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