Produced by Jane Robins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) +-------------------------------------------+ | Note: | | | | _ around word indicated italics _in._ | | | +-------------------------------------------+ [Illustration] CATALOGUE OF THE RETROSPECTIVE LOAN EXHIBITION OF EUROPEAN TAPESTRIES HELD IN THE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART MCMXXII EUROPEAN TAPESTRIES SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART CATALOGUE OF THE RETROSPECTIVE LOAN EXHIBITION OF EUROPEAN TAPESTRIES BY PHYLLIS ACKERMAN M.A.; PH.D. WITH A PREFACE BY J. NILSEN LAURVIK DIRECTOR SAN FRANCISCO PUBLISHED BY THE MUSEUM MCMXXII _Published September 29, 1922, in an edition of 2000 copies. Copyright, 1922, by San Francisco Museum of Art. Reprinted November 15, 1922, 500 copies._ _Printed by_ TAYLOR & TAYLOR, _San Francisco. In the making of the type-design for the cover, the printer has introduced an illuminated fifteenth-century woodcut by an unknown master. Its original appears, illuminated as shown, in "L'Istoire de la Destruction de Troye la Grant," a book printed at Paris, dated May 12, 1484, of which only a single copy is known to exist, that in the Royal Library at Dresden, this reproduction having been made from the excellent facsimile of the block shown in Claudin's "Histoire de l'Imprimerie en France." The border-design of the cover is composed of the names of the chief tapestry-producing cities in Europe during the Gothic and Renaissance periods._ _Halftones made by Commercial Art Company, San Francisco._ PREFACE This historical exhibition of European Tapestries is the fourth in a series of retrospective exhibitions which we have planned to illustrate the chronological development of some important phase of world-art, as in the Old Masters Exhibition, held in the fall of 1920, or of the art of an individual in whose work is significantly reflected the spirit of his age, as in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection of drawings and etchings by Rembrandt, exhibited here in the spring of 1920.