Picture, Needlework
- Object Name:
- Picture, Needlework
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.61
- Date:
- 1860-1900
- Description:
- Canvaswork picture worked in Berlin [merino] wools, depicting a bouquet of flowers and grape clusters on a black background. The bouquet is finely cross-stitched in shades of green, lavender, pink, blue, and gold on the cotton canvas. The black background is also worked in cross stitches of a fine scale, about 16 stitches to the inch. The canvas is laid on, but separate from, a cardboard backing.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool - Dimensions:
- H-14.6 W-16 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro) between 1895 and 1913.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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