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According to George L. Hunter (edition of 1925 of his work on tapestries)-- A set of five Don Quixote tapestries with crimson borders were in the collection of Mrs Fitz-Eugene Dixon (of the Widener family of Philadelphia) 4-of them came the Archbishop of Rheims, presented to him by Louis XVI in 1774. 1-from the Duke of Hessen-Darmstadt, who received it from Napoleon in 1810. Mrs. Dixon acquired them from J.P.Morgan, Jr., after the death of J.P. Morgan Sr. -- Morgan had acquired them from Don Francesco de Assisi. Hunter does not mention the Hertford-Wallace pedigree for these tapestries. A set of five Don Quixote tapestries after Copel cartoons with yellow borders were in the collection of Clarence H. Mackay, and as far as we knowa re still in the possession of Mrs. Mackay, as they were not sold with the other works of art after Mackay's death. They are fully descibed in the catalogue of the Mackay tapestries compiled by George L. Hunter in 1925. They represent scenes I, V, XVIII, XXI, XXVII of the Don Quixote cartoons. 4- of them were bought in 1763 by Mme. Vernon and were afterwards in the collection of the Marquis of Hertford and Baron de Gunsbourg. The fith is listed without provenance and its borders are missing. The following notation was also made--unfortunately without any further reference...1-- That there is an oval portrait of a woman reading a letter by Boucher in the Ringling Museum at Sarasota,Florida, which carries the pedigree of: Presented by Sir Richard Wallace to the late Frederic Spitzer; Spitzer Collection Sale,N.Y. 1929. ?????