Box Depicting the Finding of Moses and Scenes from Abraham and Hagar
Third quarter of the 17th century
- Medium
- Wooden box; covered with silk, satin weave; appliquéd with silk and linen, plain weaves and twill plaited tapes; embroidered with silk, metal threads, and linen in a variety of stitches; laid work, buttonhole couching, couching, and…
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 21.3 × 38.7 × 32.4 cm (8 3/8 × 15 1/4 × 12 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, Bertha Palmer Thorne, Rose Movius Palmer, and Mrs. Gordon Palmer
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
