The famous
"Lady and the Unicorn" Tapestries, on permanent
display at the Musée de Cluny in Paris, include one tent picture.
It's a circular tent, blue with gold ermine spots (I think
there's a heraldic name for that...) on the outside, lined in
unpatterned gold-colored fabric, with a valence strip showing the motto
"A mon seul desire" in gold, and an elaborate finial atop the single
center pole holds a small heraldic banner.
Two guy lines are visible, both with crow's-feet in the
top foot or two before they attach to the top of the valence strip; the
guy lines are not staked down, but rather tied to trees. As an
allegorical picture, it should be taken cum grano salis, but
it at least tells us what sort of tent a late 15th-century artist could
imagine.