Queen Anne (1665-1714) in the House of Lords, by Peter Tillemans, a circa 1710 painting of the House of Lords showing the tapestries as they hung until they burned in 1834. Rather typically for the period, sconces have been fixed through them.
The Armada Tapestries were a series of ten tapestries that commemorated the defeat of the Spanish Armada. They were commissioned in 1591 by the Lord High Admiral, Howard of Effingham, who had commanded the Royal Navy against the Armada.[1] In 1651 they were hung in the old House of Lords chambers, which at the time was used for the meetings of the committee of Parliament. They remained there until destroyed in the Burning of Parliament of 1834.[2]
^Phillis Rogers, 'The Armada tapestries in the House of Lords', RSA Journal Vol. 136, No. 5386 (September 1988), p. 731.
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