Dido and the plans of Carthage

One panel from a series of Flemish tapestries depicting Dido and Aeneas, illustrating Dido showing the plans of Carthage to Aeneas, who wears a breastplate and feathered helmet. On the left, masons are busy at work. Border of blue cartouches with putti and swags of fruit, flowers, shells and dolphins flanked by Corinthian columns. Woven in the workshop of Michael Wauters after cartoons by Giovanni Romanelli. One of three panels from this series in the Royal Collection.