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The process allowed for a group of women to embroider the  individual panels at the same time. If required, the hanging could be dismantled at a later stage and the panels re-used.<br><br><b>People</b><br>Surviving embroideries owned or worked by royalty can rarely be identified. Some of the numerous embroideries  worked by the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) during her imprisonment in England bear her initials or cipher. This activity must have both filled her time and occupied her mind, since many of the emblems or mottoes used have more significance than is immediately apparent.<br><br><b>Subjects Depicted</b><br>The central part of this panel is based on the  woodcut  <i>Echinops</i> ( from the Greek <i>Echino</i>  for sea urchin) in Conrad Gesner's <i> Icones Animalium Aquatilium</i>  ('Pictures of Aquatic Creatures') of  1560. Since there are no identifying initials or cipher for  Mary or her captor Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (1527- 1608),  it is likely that this piece was worked by one of the ladies of the household.","physicalDescription":"Textile panel of embroidered linen canvas with silk, gold and silver threads in cross stitch.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Embroidered linen canvas with silk, gold and silver threads","categories":[{"text":"Wall coverings","id":"THES48878"},{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"},{"text":"Embroidery","id":"THES48960"},{"text":"Royalty","id":"THES48899"},{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"},{"text":"Scotland","id":"THES262877"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2006AM6738"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES404192"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Panel","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Sheffield","id":"x29138"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1570","earliest":"1565-01-01","latest":"1574-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Presented by Art Fund","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"27","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"27.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"0.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Measured; 15/06/2000 by KB","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"A BOATE / FISHE [sea urchin]","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Embroidered"}],"objectHistory":"Copying an illustration from Konrad Gesner's Icones Animalium Aquatilium (published in Zurich, 1560). Embroidered at Sheffield Castle, South Yorkshire, by an unidentified member of the household of Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick) (born, possibly at Hardwick, Derbyshire, 1527, died there, 1608).\n\nThe Oxburgh Hangings. Hanging with applied panels of embroidery, formerly at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Textile panel 'The Oxburgh Hangings' of embroidered linen canvas with silk, gold and silver threads, probably made in Sheffield, ca. 1570","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"Sea urchin","id":"x34803"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\r\nThe various creatures were copied from books. 'Boate fishe' was the English name given to a sea urchin, illustrated in  an early reference book by Konrad Gesner (see photograph). The embroiderer has copied Gesner's cross-section of the sea urchin, cutting the corners to fit it into the cross shape, and adding a title and the heads of four fish.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["T.33KK-1955"],"accessionNumberNum":"33","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1955,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP4011","2019LV7681"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-10-09","recordCreationDate":"2003-04-08","availableToBook":false}}