Don Quixote Tilting at Windmills, from Don Quixote in Grotesques” ca. 1674-76 Unknown Designer This wickedly comic tapestry belongs to a gloriously unconventional series that tells the Story of Don Quixote within a system of so-called ‘grotesque’ ornament. Exemplifying the finest of London’s tapestry weaving, made at the apex of the city’s foray into this industry in the third quarter of the seventeenth century, this piece is a truly original combination of narrative and pattern-making - elegant, imaginative, witty, with touches of burlesque. That it retains for the most part its spectacularly bright and colorful palette makes it still more desirable.Only three other surviving sets of this series are known (none of which are in public collections). Recent research has revealed that the series from which this comes is the only one that can be identified in contemporary archival documents. This was a royal purchase, bought by Charles II’s consort, Queen Catherine of Braganza, as a gift

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Don Quixote Tilting at Windmills, from Don Quixote in Grotesques” ca. 1674-76 Unknown Designer This wickedly comic tapestry belongs to a gloriously unconventional series that tells the Story of Don Quixote within a system of so-called ‘grotesque’ ornament. Exemplifying the finest of London’s tapestry weaving, made at the apex of the city’s foray into this industry in the third quarter of the seventeenth century, this piece is a truly original combination of narrative and pattern-making - elegant, imaginative, witty, with touches of burlesque. That it retains for the most part its spectacularly bright and colorful palette makes it still more desirable.Only three other surviving sets of this series are known (none of which are in public collections). Recent research has revealed that the series from which this comes is the only one that can be identified in contemporary archival documents. This was a royal purchase, bought by Charles II’s consort, Queen Catherine of Braganza, as a gift

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