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In my Ladies Chamber in the new buyldinges

Fig. 1. Offcut pieces of border from the painted cloths at Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire, early eighteenth century. These were removed when the cloths were moved from their original location and adapted for display in a different chamber.

Courtesy of Sir Nicholas Mander. Photograph: © Andrea Kirkham.

Fig. 2. Looking at an embroidered box, ‘Scenes from the Life of Abraham’, anonymous, English, possibly Miss Bluitt, later Mrs Payne, c. 1665, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, WA 1947.191.315.

Published with permission of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Photograph: The Authors.

Fig. 3. Embroidered Mermaid (detail), anonymous, British, embroidered picture: ‘The Proclamation of Solomon’, mid-seventeenth century, 35.4 cm x 47.5 cm, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, WA1947.191.313.

Published with permission of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Photograph: The Authors.

Fig. 4. Anonymous, British, embroidered picture: ‘The Temptation of Adam and Eve’, mid-seventeenth century, 57 cm x 58.5 cm, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, WA1947.191.308.

Published with permission of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Photograph: The Authors.

Fig. 5. Replica painted hanging in the hall of Bayleaf Farmhouse (c. 1540), Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Sussex, as viewed in natural (day)light, July 2014.

Courtesy of Weald & Downland Open Air Museum. Photograph: The Authors.

Fig. 6. Replica painted hanging in the hall of Bayleaf Farmhouse (c. 1540), Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Sussex, as viewed in the evening by fire and candlelight, July 2014.

Courtesy of Weald & Downland Open Air Museum. Photograph: The Authors.

Fig. 7. View at threshold of Queen Margaret’s Chamber, Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire, with the painted cloths visible on far wall, early eighteenth century.

Courtesy of Sir Nicholas Mander. Photograph: The Authors.

Fig. 8. View of the painted cloths on one of the walls of Queen Margaret’s Chamber, Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire, early eighteenth century.

Courtesy of Sir Nicholas Mander. Photograph: The Authors.