Roberts triptic

Printed below silks:-

Card-mount:
cm deep by cm wide

silk:
cm deep by cm wide

by Sprake:
Sprake does not record this title.

by Godden:
Sprake does not record this title.

Other comments:
The three individual silks which comprise this picture are all genuine Stevens manufacture. It is unlikely however that the matt is original.

All three silks are of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts. It is known that, as well as the size of signature changing, Stevens woven the same silk with different sized heads, possibly due to the loom tension being changed.
The group above reflect these differences, and the portraits are recorded individually as:

so440	Roberts F.M. (Lord Roberts - small signature to left) - medium sized head
so436	Roberts F.M. (Lord Roberts - large signature)