St. George and the Dragon: An Embroidery in Relief
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Short 1928 article from the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club on a fifteenth-century altar frontal in the Archaeological Museum, Barcelona, showing St. George and the Dragon worked in relief in silk, wool, silver and gold thread. It attributes the piece probably to Flemish work of the mid-1400s and discusses relief embroidery as a forerunner of seventeenth-century English stumpwork, citing related examples in the Cluny, the Louvre, Halberstadt and Neufchatel. Illustrated with a photograph of the altar frontal and a detail of an English valance in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1928
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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