Art Institute of Chicago

Panel

Designed by Sir Hubert Herkomer (English, born Germany, 1849–1914)

Date

1890 (produced 1890/94)

Medium

Silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

Culture

United States

Department

Textiles

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

Sir Hubert von Herkomer, a Victorian-era painter of portraits and bucolic scenes, designed this panel as one component of a cohesive interior scheme for his home Lululaund, in England. The artist named the ornate Gothic Revival mansion in honor of his late wife, Lulu. Her name appears in the velvet design, beneath the scrolling banderole, which contains the Herkomer family motto, Propriis alis (By my own wings), written in Gothic script. The panel was woven by the artist’s uncle.

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