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The Royal Windsor Tapestry Manufactory, 1876-1890

Introduction to The Royal Windsor Tapestry Works

Index to the Tapestries

Abbreviations used in the Tapestry Descriptions

In these pages references are set out fully for the first tapestry. Thereafter, abbreviations are used as follows:

Aldenham: Herbert A. Bone, The Windsor Tapestries at Aldenham House, Herts., privately printed, Harrison & Sons, London, 1881.
Australasian: The Australasian, 20 October, 1888 issue.
Bassano: A Catalogue of Windsor Tapestries, Sculptures and Carved Woodwork, etc., Bassano Galleries, 1881.
Bone: Bound volume of tapestry designs by Herbert A. Bone, preserved in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
Brignolas: Historique de l'Art des Tapisseries en Angleterre. Fondation de la Manufacture Royale de Old Windsor, Michael Brignolas, 1879, Imprimerie Anglo-Francaise, Oxford St., London, W.
Franses: Jack Franses, Tapestries and their Mythology, John Gifford, London, 1973.
Gower: Lord Ronald Gower, F.S.A., My Reminiscences, Kegan Paul Trench & Co., London, 1883.
Harris: Walter Henry Harris, Royal Windsor Tapestry, privately printed (four copies only), 1893; illustrated with 31 platinotype photographs of tapestries taken to the Chicago World's Fair (The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893) from Windsor.
Hunter: G. L. Hunter, Tapestries, Their Origin, History and Renaissance, John Lane, 1912.
Lee: Anne Lee, Tapestries Made in America, International Studio, July 1925, Vol. xxxi.
Melbourne: Official Record for the Centennial International Exhibition held in Melbourne during 1888-89.
RA: Documents preserved in the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle.
Smith: H. Clifford Smith, A Catalogue Raisonne of Principal Items at the Mansion House, City of London, 1953.
Stock List: A List of Tapestries in Stock at the Royal Windsor Tapestry Works, Windsor, 1888.
Tyntesfield: Herbert A. Bone, The Windsor Tapestries at Tyntesfield, Somerset, privately printed, 1888.
VAMC: Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue (Prints, Drawings and Paintings Section, Textiles), anon.
Vigo-Sternberg: 400 Years of English Tapestries, Vigo-Sternberg Galleries, London, 1971.
WE: The Windsor, Eton and Slough Express.
WT: Catalogue of Windsor Tapestries, pictures, ancient and modern carvings &c., &c., exhibited at the Town Hall, Windsor, December. 1878.

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