Hunters in a Landscape, Partly based on a woodcut by Jost Amman, ca. 1575–95

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Hunters in a Landscape, ca. 1575–95, British, probably London, Wool, silk (14 warps per inch; 5-6 per cm), H. 70 7/8 x W. 181 7/8 in. (180 x 462 cm); Weight (rolled on tube): 38lb. (177kg), Textiles-Tapestries, Partly based on a woodcut by Jost Amman (Swiss, Zurich before 1539–1591 Nuremberg), This extremely rare hanging combines an exquisitely well-preserved palette with the distinctive long and narrow format of a wainscot tapestry. In a style referred to by Flemish weavers at the time as 'English fashion', it was intended to hang between the cornice and the dado of a wood-paneled room

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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