Work of Art Record 43485

Record No

43485

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 60

Location

United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London, Victoria and Albert Museum

Date

late 13c.

Subject Headings

Diagram

Notes

Jesse Cope.

Vestment fragmentary; partially reassembled.

Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1889.

Citations

De Farcy, L., Broderie (1890), I, p. 127; II, pl. 42(1)

De Farcy, L., Broderie, Suppl. II (1919), pl. 223

London, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of English Ecclesiastical Embroideries of the XIII. to XVI. Centuries (1930), pp. 25, 26, pls. 15, 16

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), pp. 112-114 (no. 60); pls. LXIII, LXIV; fig. 103

Kite, M., "Conservation of the Jesse Cope," Textile History, 20 (1989), pp. 234-243; figs. 1-7

Johnstone, P., High Fashion in the Church (2002), p. 45; fig. 46

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