Title: Africa from a set of The Four Continents
Object type: Tapestry
Date: designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91
Artist:  Jean Jacques François Le Barbier 
Artist bio: French, Rouen 1738–1826 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Designer
Medium: Wool, silk (19-21 warps per inch, 8 per cm.)
Dimensions: 12 × 15 ft. (365.8 × 457.2 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
Credit line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Claus von Bülow Gift, 1978
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Pyramids, term: Crocodiles, term: Elephants, term: Lions, term: Snakes, term: Zebras