Work of Art Record 44342

Record No

44342

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 270

Location

United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London, Merchant Taylors' Hall

Date

1512 - 1538

Subject Headings

Heraldry, English: Company of Merchant Taylors

Notes

Customarily used to cover the coffin of a brother of the Mysterie at his burial.

Recorded in the Company's Inventories of 1609 and 1618.

Possibly commissioned by the company, containing its arms granted in 1480. S. John Baptist is the patron saint of the company.

Image courtesy of: The Master of The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors

Citations

Clode, C. M., Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors (1875), pp. 132-137

Fry, F. M., Historical Catalogue of the Pictures at Merchant Taylors' Hall (1907), pp. 23-24

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Opus Anglicanum (1963), pp. 58-59 (no. 153)

Davies, M. & Saunders, A., History of the Merchant Taylors’ Company (2004), pp. 30-31; color plate II B

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