[433] Lord Tyrconnell, Lord Exeter, and Lord Guildford had married three of the Brownlow heiresses of Belton, who had a winter residence at Stamford.
[434] Designed by Francesco Zuccharelli. Rock, Introduction, p. cxiv.
[435] It has been at different periods the crowning glory of the craft of the weaver to place different patterns or pictures on the two sides of the web. This would almost appear to be impossible, but that it has been done in late years, according to Rock, who tells us that he saw a banner so woven, with the Austrian eagle on one side and the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception on the other. He says that the same manufacturer was then being employed in producing ecclesiastical garments with the colours and patterns so varied.
[436] In old tapestries three tints only were employed for the complexions of men, women, and children—the man’s reddish, the woman’s yellow, and the child’s whiter than either. It is an agreeable economy of colours, simple and effective, and avoids the pictorial imitation that one deprecates. See M. Charles Blanc’s “Grammaire des Arts Décoratifs: Tapisserie,” p. 112.
[437] The poet here refers to H.R.H. the Princess Christian.
CHAPTER VII.
HANGINGS.
“... Her bedchamber was hang’d
With tapestry of silk and silver....”