Old Age Drives the Stag out of a Lake and the Hounds Heat, Grief, Cold, Anxiety, Age, and Heaviness Pursue Him: (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag), ca. 1500–1525, South Netherlandish, Wool warp, wool and silk wefts, embroidered with wool, Overall: 102 x 137in. (259.1 x 348cm), Textiles-Tapestries, This tapestry illustrates a poem about human frailty, in which the stag represents Man. Here, Age and her hounds Heat, Grief, Heaviness, Cold, and Anxiety, drive the stag from a lake. A French inscription may be translated: Then Old Age mounts an all-out assault, That drives him from the lake, And unleashes upon him Pain and Doubt, Cold and Heat, and thus brings on Care and Trouble to seize him
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