SIGN BY RUBENS 111

DESIGN BY RUBENS 112

GOBELINS TAPESTRY. DESIGN BY RUBENS 113
Royal Collection, Madrid

LOUIS XIV VISITING THE GOBELINS FACTORY 114
Gobelins Tapestry, Epoch Louis XIV

GOBELINS TAPESTRY. TIME OF LOUIS XV 126

HUNTS OF LOUIS XV 130
Gobelins, G. Audran after Cartoon by Oudry

ESTHER AND AHASUERUS SERIES 131
Gobelins, about 1730. Cartoon by J. F. de Troy;
G. Audran, weaver

CUPID AND PSYCHE 132
Gobelins Tapestry. Eighteenth Century. Design by Coypel

PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE OF RUSSIA 133
Gobelins under Louis XVI.

CHAIR OF TAPESTRY. STYLE OF LOUIS XV 136

GOBELINS TAPESTRY (DETAIL) CRAMOISEE. STYLE LOUIS XV 137

HENRI IV BEFORE PARIS 146
Beauvais Tapestry, Seventeenth Century. Design by Vincent

HENRI IV AND GABRIELLE D'ESTREES 147
Design by Vincent

BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 148
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY. TIME OF LOUIS XVI 149
Collection of Wm. Baumgarten, Esq., New York

BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY. TIME OF LOUIS XIV 150

BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY 152

CHAIR COVERING 153
Beauvais Tapestry. First Empire

SAVONNERIE. PORTRAIT SUPPOSABLY OF LOUIS XV 162
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

VULCAN AND VENUS SERIES. MORTLAKE 163
Collection of Philip Hiss, Esq., New York

VULCAN AND VENUS SERIES. MORTLAKE 168
Collection of Philip Hiss, Esq., New York

VULCAN AND VENUS SERIES. MORTLAKE 169
Collection of Philip Hiss, Esq., New York

THE EXPULSION OF VULCAN FROM OLYMPUS (_Coloured Plate_) 170

WEAVER AT WORK ON LOW LOOM. HERTER STUDIO 228

SEWING AND