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Pattern, Needlework

Object Name:
Pattern, Needlework
Object ID:
1980.502.43
Description:
Pattern, needlework, birds, paper sheet with several pencil designs. On front at right is a imaginative bird with wings spread out left and right, facing right. Wings not symmetrical. To left is a bird, perhaps in flight, facing right. Wings are spread out as if it were flying to right side. Head pointing downward. Behind the birds is a tall bowl with partial blossom design on front. At left edge is half of a bowl with band at top edge. Fruit hanging over front edge. Another type of fruit in bowl and other types of fruit above and behind bowl. Rudimentary flower blossom on front of bowl. Bowl's right edge descends down toward edge of paper and is not complete. Lightly drawn at right edge of bowl are three leaves connected to one stem. Lower right corner in pencil: "18 Oct, Munich". On back of sheet is a partial rendering of fanciful plant design with long curling stem with leaves off it. Perhaps part of it are some other blossoms and other leaves.
Material:
Paper
Dimensions:
H-8.5 W-11 inches
Credit Line:
New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
Subjects:
birds, fruit
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