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The Destruction of Niobe's Children

From the series The Great Horses by Francis Cleyn

Probably Lambeth, third quarter, seventeenth century, bearing the arms of the Earl of Meath

Coloured wools and silks

Dimensions: 17ft 5in x 11ft 5in 5.31 x 3.48m

Marked with the cross of St George

Related tapestries at Drayton, Easton Neston, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance, Stapleford Park, Leicestershire

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