Cope

1. Whalley Abbey, Whalley, Lancashire, England, before 1537 [this and the following according to Sotheby’s 1922; the Abbey of Whalley was closed 1537]; to Sir John Towneley (1473–1540), Towneley Hall, Burnley, Lancashire, England, from 1537; by descent through the Towneley family; John Towneley (1806–1878); by descent to his daughter, Lady O’Hagan (born Alice Townely, 1846–1921) [Burlington Fine Arts Club 1905, 10]; sold Sotheby, London [as property of Lord O’Hagan (Maurice Towenely O’Hagan, 3rd Baron O’Hagan, 1882–1961), Pyrgo Park, Essex], June 23, 1922, lot 41. Blumka Gallery, NY, by Mar. 30, 1970 [incoming receipt RX7934, Apr. 2, 1970; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of English Embroidery Executed Prior to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century, 1905.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1967, July 10, 1972–Apr. 30, 1973.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Raiment for the Lord's Service–A Thousand Years of Western Vestments, Nov. 15, 1975–Jan. 18, 1976.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Vestments and Liturgical Textiles from the Permanent Collection, July 27–Oct. 9, 1983.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century (in conjunction with), Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, Textile Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago's Collection (displayed in conjunction with) Feb. 17–May 10, 1993.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Heralding a Vestment Collection, Sept. 11, 1996–Jan. 12, 1997.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, Aug. 19- Dec. 31, 1998.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gunsaulus Hall, Nov. 6, 2002- Apr. 22, 2003.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Deering Family Galleries, Gallery 237, Mar. 17-Sept. 29, 2017.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Deering Family Galleries, Gallery 237, May 22, 2024-Mar. 24, 2025.

• Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of English Embroidery Executed Prior to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century (London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1905), 10, 56-57, plate 10 (Ill.).
• Sotheby’s, Wilkinson & Hodge, The Collection of 15th Century Vestments from Whalley Abbey, sales cat., June 23, 1922, (London: Sotheby’s, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1922), 10, Lot 41, frontispiece (Ill.).
• Christa C. Mayer Thurman, "Recent Acquisitions: An English Cope," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago LXVII, 2 (Mar./Apr. 1973): 4–5 (Ill.).
• Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Raiment for the Lord's Service: A Thousand Years of Western Vestments (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), 134–7, (Ill.).
• Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 42–3, 50, 144 (Ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 229 (Ill.).
• Clare Browne, Glyn Davies, and M.A. Michael, eds., English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum (New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2016), 32.