9/6/24. Medieval Life & Leisure in the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries. The four magnificent tapestries in the V & A known as the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries are the only great fifteenth-century hunting tapestries to survive the ravages of time, and they depict a lost chivalric world in rich and fascinating detail.These tapestries, once owned by the Dukes of Devonshire, provide a vivid picture of the hunt in all its forms - falconry, hunting for otter, boar, bear and deer, the robbing of a swan's nest for its eggs - and are packed with rich and entertaining human detail.