Watercolor and Silk Embroidery Picture, possibly Alma Cornelia Ives (1793-1856), Miss Royse's Sc...

Watercolor and Silk Embroidery Picture, possibly Alma Cornelia Ives (1793-1856), Miss Royse's School, Hartford, Connecticut, 1800-15. Fine satin-woven silk ground painted and embroidered to depict scene centering a round barn in a fenced yard flanked by trees, a wood-frame house, and crenellated masonry structure, the foreground depicting a shepherdess with painted face and arms seated in a landscape rendered with couched chenille threads dyed brown, ochre, yellow, green, and blue, the sheep and foliage in distance worked in dense French knots, the buildings, shepherdess's dress, distant hills, and grassy field worked in satin stitch, all under a painted blue sky, mounted in original black-painted frame under conserved eglomise mat with oval surround, inscribed 'A.C. IVES.' at bottom center, (sight) 11 1/2 x 13 in., (frame) 16 1/4 x 17 3/2 in. Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut, 15 August 2015. Literature An embroidery titled 'Innocence' by Christian Williams Salter (1790-1856) of Tolland, Connecticut, is similarly composed with central round barn and shepherdess figures, as well as a more clearly defined river feature than that in Ives' picture. See Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery, vol. 1 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), fig. 248, p. 213. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing