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Watercolor and Silk-Embroidered Picture of a Shepherdess, Folwell School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1810. Plain-woven silk ground with drawn outlines defining the head and arms of a central figure, painted fields defining the sky and lake in background, and otherwise worked in silk threads to depict trees, wildflowers, and a fenced cottage, rendered predominantly in satin and chain stitches, contrasting with the sheep's piled fleece of French knots, mounted under later eglomise mat in period gold-leaf frame, (sight) 10 1/8 x 8 1/8 in., (frame) 15 x 13 in. Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. M. Finkel & Daughter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 April 2001. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Watercolor and Silk-Embroidered Picture of a Shepherdess, Folwell School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1810. Plain-woven silk ground with drawn outlines defining the head and arms of a central figure, painted fields defining the sky and lake in background, and otherwise worked in silk threads to depict trees, wildflowers, and a fenced cottage, rendered predominantly in satin and chain stitches, contrasting with the sheep's piled fleece of French knots, mounted under later eglomise mat in period gold-leaf frame, (sight) 10 1/8 x 8 1/8 in., (frame) 15 x 13 in. Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. M. Finkel & Daughter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 April 2001. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing