id: 127182 accession number: 1949.503 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.503 updated: 2025-02-09 01:28:54.290000 Orphrey Band: The Tree of Jesse, c. 1350. England, 14th century. Silk, gold and silver thread, linen; embroidery: split and couching stitches; overall: 85.7 x 18.1 cm (33 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.); mounted: 109.2 x 28.6 cm (43 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1949.503 title: Orphrey Band: The Tree of Jesse title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1350 creation date earliest: 1345 creation date latest: 1355 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 14th century technique: Silk, gold and silver thread, linen; embroidery: split and couching stitches department: Textiles collection: T - Ecclesiastical type: Embroidery find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 85.7 x 18.1 cm (33 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.); Mounted: 109.2 x 28.6 cm (43 x 11 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: three figures framed by a scrolling vine dressed in medieval costumes hold scrolls on which their names are written in Latin; they read from top to bottom: Achim, Ezechias-Rex, and Eloud. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: English Medieval Embroidery opening date: 1963-09-26T04:00:00 English Medieval Embroidery. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (September 26-November 24, 1963). title: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00 When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982). title: Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages opening date: 1985-01-22T05:00:00 Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985). title: Only for Beauty? (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2014-12-08T05:00:00 Only for Beauty? (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 2014-December 7, 2015). title: Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2020-12-19T05:00:00 Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 2020-April 11, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Aspects of the Middle Ages. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (February 17-March 24, 1940)', 'opening_date': '1940-02-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Aspects of Late Medieval Art. The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH (October 31-November 20, 1958).', 'opening_date': '1958-10-31T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Opus Anglicanum. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (September 26-November 26, 1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-09-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Raiment for the Lord's Service, A Thousand Years of Western Vestments. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 11, 1975-January 18, 1976).", 'opening_date': '1975-11-11T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Gallery 216 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1991).', 'opening_date': '1991-07-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE formerly in the collection of Marquis de Cubas, Madrid; Joseph Brummer collection, New York; A. Bradley Martin, New York. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Arts of the Middle Ages; A Loan Exhibition, February 17 to March 24, 1940. Boston, Mass: Museum of Fine Arts, 1940. page number: no. 100b, p. 35 url: Shepherd, Dorothy G. "An English Embroidery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 37, no. 4 (1950): page number: p. 66-68 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141627 Riefstahl, Elizabeth. "An Embroidered Tree of Jesse." Brooklyn Museum Bulletin 11, no. 4 (1950): 4-13. Accessed April 24, 2020. page number: p. 4-13 url: www.jstor.org/stable/26458022 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. 153 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n39 Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Aspects of Late Mediaeval Art; The Mediaeval Conference, the Ohio State University. 1958. page number: no. 3 (under textiles) url: King, Donald. Opus Anglicanum; English Medieval Embroidery. [London]: Arts Council, 1963. page number: no. 88, p. 42 url: Bober, Harry. 1963. "Medieval Art at Cleveland". Apollo 78. 447-456. page number: p.456 url: "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963): 174-215. page number: no. 49, pp.176, 207 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25151960. 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. 62 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n86 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. 62 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n86 Mayer-Thurman, Christa C., John Maxon, Aidan Kavanagh, Donald L. Garfield, and Horace T. Allen. Raiment for the Lord's Service: A Thousand Years of Western Vestments. Chicago: Art Institute, 1975. page number: no. 14, p. 82, p. 83 illus url: 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. 71 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n91 Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: p. 15, 17-18, 58 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992. page number: p.98 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.503/1949.503_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.503/1949.503_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.503/1949.503_full.tif