===c.1700 Faucault sketches===
In 1724 a 10m long colour drawing of the first seventh of the Tapestry was uncovered by De Boze amongst the collection of antiquities belonging to the then recently deceased previous Ex-intendant of Normandy [WILSON 2005]. The Ex-intendant was one Nicolas-Joseph Faucault who had resided in Bayeux between XXX 1688 and 17051704 [DAWSON 1907]. Upon his death in 1721 his collection was XXXXX.<br>
The origin of the drawings original source was unknown and they were passed to M. Lancelot, a member of the 'Académie des Inscrptions' for further investigation [FAWKE 1885].<br>
The discovered colour drawing of the Tapestry has been attributed to either Faucalt himself, his daughter Anne (who was apparently a competent artist) or possibly to a commissioned artist and probably completed over a number of years prior to 1705 [HICKS 2006:p.72].<br>
===1729 Benoît sketches===
After the location of the Tapestry was discovered in 1729 Father Bernard de Montfaucon commissions Antonine Benoît to produce an accurate copy of the rest of the tapestry with instructions to 'reduce it to a given size, but to alter nothing' [FAWKE 1885]. Benoît indicated indicated by the use of dashed lines where he considered areas of the embroidery to be missing [DAWSON 1907]. <br>The images here are Benoît's unpublished sketches. Benoît's sketches are probably the basis for all of the engraving of the Tapestry up until Stothard's drawings of 1816-17 [DAWSON 1907]. Their accuracy has been criticised as Benoît attempted to make all of the panels a standard height. This has led so some stretching or compression of the images.<br>
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