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The kneeling woman crowned with a circlet of blossoms, offering a basket of flowers and fruit, personifies Asia. The dark-skinned woman bearing a horn of plenty full of sheaves of grain represents Africa. The third attendant, who wears a feathered headdress and displays gold, silver, and pearls, can be identified as America. The attributes of all four figures are based on Cesare Ripa\u2019s <em>Iconologia<\/em> (1593), and their depiction exemplifies the early style of their designer, Lodewijck van Schoor: they have elongated bodies, small heads, long noses, and broad arms and legs, and though they gesture dramatically, their poses are formulae repeated throughout the set.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"371.2 \u00d7 382.5 cm (146 1\/8 \u00d7 150 1\/2 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":382,"height":371,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave\nWarp: Count: 7 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of three Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7\u20130.9 mm\nWeft: Count: varies from 28 to 44 wefts per cm; wool: single S-spun elements; S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.2\u20130.8 mm; silk: pairs of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6\u20130.8 mm","inscriptions":"Signed: A. AVWERCX; L.VAN SCHOOR INV PINX","credit_line":"Gift of Benjamin E. Bensinger, III","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"George Leland Hunter, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Eighteenth-Century and Modern American Tapestries, exh. cat. (Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1914), 31-32, cat. 44.\n\nGeorge Leland Hunter, Loan Exhibition of Tapestries, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1915), 34-36, cat. 42.\n\nJames T. Maher, The Twilight of Splendor: Chronicles of the Age of American Palaces (Little, Brown, and Company, 1975), 64.\n\nKoenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: \"The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago\"] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 187-190, cat. 24 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Buffalo, NY, Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of Tapestries, 1914, cat.\n\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of Tapestries, 1915, cat.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008\u2013Jan. 4, 2009.","provenance_text":"Lewis and Simmons, London and New York, by 1914; sold to Mr. Edward Townsend Stotesbury (1849-1938) and his wife Eva Stotesbury (1865-1946; born Lucretia Bishop Roberts), Philadelphia, 1915 or 1916; sold to French and Company, New York, 1925; sold to Horace Hano (died 1927), Philadelphia, 1926. 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