Yarn painting in frame; image of seated pope in high-backed chair; he faces table with triple crown of St. Peter on it; draperies frame upper half of painting; wool and metallic yarns; all red yarns destroyed by insect damage; face and right hand painted; painting under glass; elaborate gold-colored carved wood frame; size of cardboard behind painting 22.3 x 29 cm; overall length 46.5 cm, width 41.5 cm
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
Italy attrib.
Culture or time period:
Italian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Wool (textile) and Yarn
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Yarn paintings
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)