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Hunters in a Landscape

With elements after a design on a woodcut by Jost Amman Swiss
ca. 1575–95
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 509
Late sixteenth-century London experienced a massive influx of talent as Protestant artisans fled religious persecution in the Spanish Netherlands. This tapestry was probably made by Flemish weavers in Southwark, then situated just south of London and not subject to the city’s strict guild regulations. Low and wide, it was made for the open market, targeted to appeal to the English taste for tapestries hung between a room’s wooden wainscot paneling and its ceiling. The Flemish called such wainscot hangings “English style.”
For refugee weavers restarting their businesses from scratch, a tapestry like this—woven with the image on its side—had the advantage of requiring only a single small loom at which one weaver could work quite comfortably. This setup was a far cry from the collaborative, commercial workshops of Flanders. In the same make-do spirit, the tapestry’s cartoon reuses existing design sources, collaged into a new landscape setting.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Hunters in a Landscape
  • Designer: Anonymous, 16th century
  • Artist: With elements after a design on a woodcut by Jost Amman (Swiss, Zurich before 1539–1591 Nuremberg)
  • Maker: Woven by Anonymous Flemish weavers
  • Date: ca. 1575–95
  • Culture: British, probably London
  • Medium: Wool, silk (14 warps per inch; 5-6 per cm)
  • Dimensions: H. 70 7/8 x W. 181 7/8 in. (180 x 462 cm); Weight (rolled on tube): 38lb. (17.2367kg)
  • Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, Rosetta Larsen Trust Gift, and Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2009
  • Object Number: 2009.280
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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