Arras Tapestry: The Knights Departing by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt ARA (1833-1898). 94 x 138 inches. 1889.
This tapestry was one of the series on the subject of the Holy Grail that William Knox D'Arcy commissioned for the dining room at Stanmore Hall in 1889. Like the others in this series, this tapestry, which was woven at Merton Abbey, depicts a subject from Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
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