id: 109340 accession number: 1927.487 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.487 updated: 2023-12-08 21:47:36.609000 Story of Perseus and Andromeda, early 1500s. Netherlands, early 16th century. Tapestry weave: wool and silk; overall: 320.5 x 446.8 cm (126 3/16 x 175 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1927.487 title: Story of Perseus and Andromeda title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 1500s creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1525 current location: creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, early 16th century technique: tapestry weave: wool and silk department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Tapestry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 320.5 x 446.8 cm (126 3/16 x 175 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: Gallery One 2012 opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00 Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland Museum of Art, "Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition" [June 26-Oct. 4, 1936]. --- PROVENANCE Sir Edgar Speyer, England; (P. W. French & Co., New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. ""Perseus and Andromeda," a Gothic Tapestry in the John Huntington Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 3 (March 1927): 34-40. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: 34-40 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137007 Siple, Ella S. "A Late Gothic Tapestry at Cleveland." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 51, no. 293 (August 1927): 99-100. page number: Mentioned: P. 99-100 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/863270 "A Gothic Tapestry." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 51, no. 294 (September 1927): 149-150. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 149-150 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/863434 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 24-25 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n28 Gibson, Katharine. The Goldsmith of Florence; A Book of Great Craftsmen. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. page number: Reproduced: P. 3 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 186 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n44 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 72 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n96 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 72 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n96 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 82 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n102 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.487/1927.487_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.487/1927.487_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.487/1927.487_full.tif