A needlework picture, embroidered in coloured silks and metal wire, with Bathsheba and her attendants by an elaborate fountain, with King David watching from his castle, also with a messenger reporting Uriah's death to the King, small spot motifs of figures, plants and animals, including a raised work parrot--12in x 17in., unfinished, mounted, English, mid 17th century

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A needlework picture, embroidered in coloured silks and metal wire, with Bathsheba and her attendants by an elaborate fountain, with King David watching from his castle, also with a messenger reporting Uriah's death to the King, small spot motifs of figures, plants and animals, including a raised work parrot--12in x 17in., unfinished, mounted, English, mid 17th century
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There is a needlework picture with a very similar main subject matter, but with different details in the Untermeyer collection (illustrated on plate 85), which is probably taken from the same source, possibly the engravings in Thesaurus Veteris Testamenti by Gerard De Jode, Antwerp, 1585.

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