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Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow

Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow is a 16th-century tapestry in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow is a 16th-century tapestry in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Woven from dyed wool and silk thread, the tapestry is part of a larger series of hunting tapestries attributed to the Southern Netherlands. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow is 16th century tapestry in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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