Franses Tapestry Archive

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Franses Tapestry Archive
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Interior view of the Franses Tapestry Archive
Country United Kingdom
Type Research Archive
Established 1987 (1987)
Location St James's, London
Collection
Items collected Visual records of tapestries, books, academic journals, periodicals, sale catalogues
Size 270,000+
Access and use
Access requirements Research for academic articles, books, exhibitions, research advancing knowledge or appreciation of tapestries
Other information
Director Simon Franses

The Franses Tapestry Archive and Library in London is devoted to the study of European tapestries and figurative textiles. It is the world’s largest academic research resource on the subject.[1]

History

Established in 1987, the archive was co-founded by Simon Franses, a director of the Franses Gallery and Tom Campbell,[2] a tapestry scholar. After 7 years of full-time work Dr Campbell moved to New York to take up a curatorial post at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He went on to curate two landmark Tapestry exhibitions Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (2002)[3] and Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor (2007).[4] In 2008 he was appointed director of the museum.

The vast collection of images began to be collected by Dr Campbell with a team of research assistants, and was gathered from across Europe and America. The Archive has continued to expand over 29 years. It now holds over 240,000 visual records of European tapestries accessible by subject, date, country of manufacture and place of origin. These records have been collected and catalogued from several hundred museums, libraries, auction houses, trade and private collections, and allows precise identification of individual works (as well as visual reconstruction of dispersed sets of tapestries).

Mission

  • To collect images and data on every significant European tapestry and figurative textile.
  • To identify, classify, cross-reference and conserve these.
  • To increase knowledge by collecting books, related articles, and documentation on design, commissioning, origin, production, use, value, provenance.
  • To increase appreciation and understanding of this art form.

Archive

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Exterior of the Franses Tapestry Archive
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Drawer from the Archive Subject Catalogue
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Interior view of the Franses Tapestry Archive showing subject drawers
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Interior view of the Franses Tapestry Archive showing French Sales catalogues

The images are stored under almost 900 main headings from Landmark Series of European Tapestries to more modest works, altar frontal, table carpets, cushions and upholstery.

Tapestry Series Title Century Subject Archive Ref Notes
The Beaufort Arms 14th Armorial 68
Apocalypse 14th Religious 434/435 Château d'Angers
Nine Heroes 15th History/Religious 145 [5]
Saint Piat and Saint Eleutherius 15th Religious 430/436 Tournai Cathedral
Devonshire Hunting Tapestries 15th Hunting 305 [6]
The Justice of Trajan and Herkenbald 15th History 131 Wikicommons
The Ceasar Tapestries 15th History 117 -
Life of Saint Peter 15th Religious 438 -
History of Troy 15th History 260 [7]
The Hunt of the Unicorn 15th Allegory 4 [8]
The Lady and the Unicorn 16th Allegory 4 [9]
The Honours 16th Allegory 52 [10]
Acts of the Apostles 16th Religious 424 Vatican Museums
The Grotesques of Leo X 16th Mythology 82 Vatican Museums
The Hunts of Maximlillien 16th Hunting 746 Louvre
The Passion 16th Religious 407 [11]
Scuola Nouva 16th Religious 400 Vatican Museums
Deeds of Scipio 16th History 136 -
The Story of Scipio 16th History 133 [12]
The Seven Deadly Sins 16th Religious 54 [13]
The Story of Joshua 16th Religious 368 [14]
The Story of Joseph 16th Religious 364 -
The Story of Saint Paul 16th Religious 440 [15]
The Story of Abraham 16th Religious 351 [16]
The Jagiellonian Tapestries 16th Various Various Wikicommons
The Battle of Pavia 16th History 162 Museo di Capodimonte
The Conquest of Tunis| 16th History 154 [17]
Early History of Rome 16th History 131 -
Fables of Ovid "Poesia" 16th Mythology 252 [18]
The Valois Tapestries 16th Courtly 279 Uffizi
The Armada 16th/17th History 153 [19]
The Story of Vulcan 17th Mythology 534 [20]
Hero and Leander 17th Mythology 530 Wikicommons
The Story of Queen Artemesia 17th History 675 [21]
The Triumph of the Eucharist 17th Religious 336 [22]
The Story of Constantine 17th History 676 [23]
Story of Achilles 17th Mythology 231 [24]
Decius Mus 17th History 125 [25]
Stories from the Old Testament 17th Religious 693 -
The Story of Alexander 17th History 723 -
The Royal Residences 17th Hunting 700 -
The Gallery of Apollo 17th Portraits 727 Wikicommons
The Elements 17th Allegory 697 -
Histoire du Roi 17th History 726 -
New Indies 18th Allegory 730 -
Hunts of Louis XV 18th Hunting 745 -
Don Quixote 18th Myth/Literature 275 [26]
Fragments from the Opera 18th Myth/Literature 742 [27]
Holy Grail Tapestries 19th Myth/Literature Morris [28]

The Collection includes:

  • Visual records: 240,000 +
  • Reference Books: 2,760
  • Articles: 3,600
  • Catalogues of major collections: 450
  • Sale catalogues and periodicals: 20,000

Other archives, collections and photos

Institutions

Private collections

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Pages from the former Hamot, Paris Album showing "L'Été" an extremely rare Savonnerie Pictorial Tapestry.
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Bernheimer, Munich Archive of Tapestry photographs.

Galleries

  • Bernheimer, Munich
  • Duveen, New York
  • S Franses, London
  • French & Company, New York
  • Hamot, Paris
  • C John, London
  • Mayorcas, London
  • Perez, London
  • Rosenberg & Steibel, New York
  • Seligman, Paris

Research projects

The Archive has undertaken a number of research projects. A joint survey with the National Trust of the Tapestries in their 200 historic houses was carried out. Assistance is given to academics and scholars[30][31] and where copyright is owned, images are made available for publication.[32]

A project with Glasgow City Art Gallery and Museum assembling documentation from the Archive on Sir William Burrell’s collection of medieval tapestries. The Burrell Collection has appointed two international tapestry scholars to catalogue this Tapestry collection.[33] The archive assisted with the academic research and securing loans for the "History Woven in Threads" an Exhibition of Medieval and Renaissance Tapestries held in 2014 at Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Vilnius.[34]

Surveys

Lost and stolen

Several missing or stolen pieces have been recovered through the Archive – in 1993 two Gobelins Tapestries stolen from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York, were located and returned, and a Brussels Tapestry stolen from North Mymms Park, England. In 2001 The Art Loss Register deposited images of missing or stolen tapestries and textiles.

Other uses of the documentation

The documentation is also used to provide appraisals for government indemnity in the case of inter-museum loans, grant-giving bodies and Acceptance in Lieu.

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  3. ↑ Campbell, ed. Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence, exhibition catalogue, Metropolitan Museum of Art 2002.
  4. ↑ Thomas P. Campbell, Pascal-François Bertrand, Jeri Bapasola, 'Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor', Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 Jan 2007
  5. ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/47.101.3/[bare URL]
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  11. ↑ http://tapestries.flandesenhispania.org/index.php/The_Passion_of_Christ_series_(Pasi%C3%B3n_de_Cristo)-[dead link]
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  13. ↑ http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/view?exhibitionId=%7B9c967c7d-b440-438e-a197-a9ce6c970afc%7D&oid=626204[bare URL]
  14. ↑ http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/view?exhibitionId=%7Bfc2c7eb8-3ec0-4e06-a102-60aa535828b9%7D&oid=239289[bare URL]
  15. ↑ http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/view?exhibitionId=%7Ba7b39f90-1190-416d-a32f-b9f5333ce6a5%7D&oid=238936[bare URL]
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  26. ↑ http://collections.frick.org/view/objects/asitem/125/5/primaryMaker-asc/title-asc?t:state:flow=f7b6a502-ce0c-412e-a003-dd36f51c803d
  27. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  28. ↑ http://www.bmagic.org.uk/results?s=Holy+Grail+Tapestries%7CArticle from the Birmingham Museums
  29. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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Further reading

General

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Museum collections

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Flemish tapestry

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French tapestry

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German tapestry

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British tapestry

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Italian tapestry

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Other

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External links

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