209.—ORIGINAL TAPESTRY.
"I was not rich enough to buy good pictures, so I made myself some tapestry such as I am sure every one cannot have." The tapestry in question was truly such as few could have and still fewer could manufacture; for it was Haydn that spoke and the hangings referred to consisted of over forty compositions in canon form, mounted and hung in his bedroom in the way customary for paintings and engravings. Had it been some composers we might think it a monumental exhibition of vanity or pride in their own abilities, but Haydn's nature was hardly of that kind.