A MORTLAKE TAPESTRY, DEPICTING BACCHANALIAN CHILDREN ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF JOHN VANDERBANK, EARLY 18TH CENTURY Woven in silks and wools, to the left a fountain before a baroque portico, towards the centre a child dressed as the infant Bacchus rising a goat and supported by two others, accompanied by a child playing cymbals and another carrying an ensign, two infant satyrs piping and dancing, a mansion and formal garden in the background approximately 210cm high, 596cm wide Provenance: Offered on behalf of a Charitable Foundation Literature: H.C. Mailler, English Tapestries of the 18th Century, London, 1930, pp 24-26, describing a similar set of tapestries at Cotehele and also 'long panel corresponding to one of the Boughton designs and embodying the Cotehele panels, no's 1, 5 and 7' (Plate 10a). The present tapestry shows the same composition as the illustrated example but in reverse.