About This Artwork

England

Cope, Late 15th/early 16th century

Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; couching; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in satin and split stitches; laid work, couching and padded couching; spangles
144 x 291.1 cm (56 3/4 x 114 5/8 in.)
Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment, 1971.312a

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhition of English Embroidery Executed Prior to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century,"1905

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1967," July 10, 1972–April 30, 1973

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Raiment for the Lord's Service - A Thousand Years of Western Vestments,"
November 15, 1975–January 18, 1976

The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, "Vestments and Liturgical Textiles from the Permanent Collection," July 27–October 9, 1983

The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, "European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century" (in conjunction with), September 27, 1989–February 7, 1990

The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, "Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection" (in conjunction with)February 17–May 10, 1993

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Heralding a Vestment Collection," September 11, 1996–January 12, 1997

Publication History

Burlington Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of English Embroidery Executed prior to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century. London, 1905. p. 56 (Illus.).

Sotheby & Co. The Collection of 15th Century Vestments from Whalley Abbey. London, 1922. Lot 41.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman. "Recent Acquisitions: An English Cope." Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago. Vol LXVII, No. 2, March-April 1973. p. 4-5 (Illus.).

Christa C. MayerThurman. Raiment for the Lord's Service: A Thousand Years of Western Vestments. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 134-7, (Illus.), p. 135-6.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), p. 42-3 (Illus.), 50, 144.

The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), p. 229 (Illus.).