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Next to this youth, one of his companions gazes at the corpse of an executioner, whose legs only are visible behind the King; while the third youth raises clasped hands in prayer and praise for their deliverance. On the ground lie a helmet and the bearded head of another dead executioner.  A child holding a musical pipe, his back to the viewer, stands left, on a bank of earth with sparse plants. Nebuchadnezzar’s rich, fanciful attire is heightened with silver-gilt thread, as are his sceptre and the crown on his distinctive turban, confined in a golden net and adorned with a jewel and a bird of paradise. His cloak and the tunic of the boy are vivid red: the youths are clad in garments of peach-pink, pale blue, and green. A tree grows beside the furnace.\n\n<b>Border description\n</b>\r\nVertical borders of grotesques, and acanthus scrolls in the horizontal borders, are now on a cream ground; but it may have faded from a shade of pink, with oval medallions that project over both picture space and edging now missing. Within a narrow wreath of leaves bound with red ribbon, these pale blue medallions contain a ducal coronet over an elaborate monogram of the letters L and Q, with possibly P, R and D, heightened with gold thread. Grotesques incorporating a herm, winged boys, and a naked huntress with two dogs are illustrated.\r\n\n","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Poyntz, Francis","id":"A6265"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"thomas poyntz","id":"AUTH326242"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":"Although no evidence survives to show that Francis Poyntz made Nebuchadnezzar tapestries, if it was woven before the establishment of tapestry workshops at Brick Lane, Bethnal Green by Thomas Poyntz, late in 1678, then the Duchess’s set was made in Hatton Garden. If the designs for this series were  acquired through the services of Peter de Colvenaer, who was named in the petition of Francis and Thomas Poyntz late in 1678 as one of their employees, it was with Francis, established as the King’s chief tapestry-maker, that the immigrant would have dealt rather than his nephew, not known either to have been active in London before 1677, or to have made tapestries before 1678. This implies that these tapestries might have been made shortly after the move to Brick Lane by some of Francis’s weavers (led presumably by Peter de Colvenaer) who could previously have woven Nebuchadnezzar tapestries at Hatton Garden. The border on Nebuchadnezzar was still in use in Hatton Garden in 1684."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver-gilt thread","id":"x30492"},{"text":"silk","id":"AAT14072"},{"text":"worsted","id":"AAT227943"}],"techniques":[{"text":"tapestry","id":"AAT61981"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Woven tapestry","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"},{"text":"Wall coverings","id":"THES48878"},{"text":"Interiors","id":"THES48933"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2009CP4641","2011EP8299","2011EP8298","2011EP8292","2011EP8291","2011EP8290","2011EP8289","2009CP4642"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"008","id":"THES325596"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Tapestry","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1673-1685","earliest":"1673-01-01","latest":"1685-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchase from a Belgian dealer (Pierre Avonds, Turnhout) (£7,812.50)","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Weight","value":"34","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"30/09/2013","earliest":"2013-09-30","latest":"2013-09-30"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"226","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"top edge","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"231","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"bottom edge","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"278","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"left side","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"280","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"right side","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Weight including roller","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Monogram","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Monogram"}],"objectHistory":"Initials L, Q, with possibly R, P and D, beneath a ducal coronet show that this set was woven for Louise René de Penancöet de Quéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth. In August 1673 she was first given denization and then, in one grant, was created Baroness of Petersfield, Countess of Fareham and Duchess of Portsmouth. Her English tapestries with ducal coronet may have been ordered in 1673-4 to mark this elevation: certainly, they were woven after August 1673 and probably before the death of Charles II in February 1685.  \r\n\r\nAccording to later inventories, Louise de Quéroualle owned four or five sets of English tapestry. Taken at her death in 1734, the inventory of her house in Paris recorded nine <i>Hunts “fabriquées en Angleterre</i>”; and an inventory of the Château d’Aubigny made in December 1763 (then the property of her great-grandson) noted four other sets as<i> “fabrique d’Angleterre”</i>. One of these was described as<i> “Une tenture de tapisserie a personnages … en cinq pieces de treize aulnes et demy de Cours sur deux aulnes et demy de haut”</i>, which, from its number of subjects and measurements could possibly have been the Nebuchadnezzar set. It is quite likely that these tapestries had been at Aubigny at the time of the Duchess of Portsmouth’s death and remained there until the contents of the château were dispersed, which, as the property of an English aristocrat, possibly occurred by looting during the French revolution or the Napoleonic wars. \r\n\r\n<i>Nebuchadnezzar</i> was presumably separated before 1914 from the two pieces of the set then sold in Paris, but the tapestry cannot be identified on the art market until a photograph from the Seligman Archive records it as sold to Georges Haardt in 1925. On 30 May 1975 it was lot 143 in a Sotheby Parke Bernet sale, New York, and was exhibited at the Brussels Antiques Fair of March 1976 by the Belgian dealer Pierre Avonds, from whom the Museum purchased the tapestry in 1983-4.\r\n","historicalContext":"This object record is based on the manuscript for the book  <i>From Mortlake to Soho: English Tapestry 1619-1782. Including a  Catalogue of Tapestries in the Victoria and Albert Museum </i>by Wendy Hefford (1938-2022)","briefDescription":"Woven tapestry, England, 1673-1685","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Böttiger, The Swedish state's collection of woven tapestries, Drottningholm, 1895-1898, vols. II p.61, III pp.32-34, IV p.81, pl. 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