The stunning tapestry woven by victims of religious persecution

"This tapestry is almost the antithesis of what one expects from a great sixteenth-century weaving."

"This tapestry is almost the antithesis of what one expects from a great sixteenth-century weaving."

Curator Elizabeth Cleland on "Hunters in a Landscape," a Flemish tapestry from the sixteenth century.

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Hunters in a Landscape, Anonymous, 16th century, Wool, silk (14 warps per inch; 5-6 per cm), British, probably London
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1575–95