AN EARLY VICTORIAN GILTWOOD FIRESCREEN

THE EMBROIDERY MID-18TH CENTURY, THE SCREEN CIRCA 1840

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN GILTWOOD FIRESCREEN
THE EMBROIDERY MID-18TH CENTURY, THE SCREEN CIRCA 1840
With rising panel, mounted with inscribed plaque 'This embroidery/was worked by the/Princess of Orange,/daughter of/ George the Second'
39 ½ in. (100.5 cm.) high; 25 ½ in. (65 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep

Provenance

Possibly purchased from M. Marks, Oxford St., June 1876 (£18) by
Sir Henry Hope Edwardes Bt., Wooton Hall, Derbyshire and by descent to
Lt. Col. Herbert James Hope-Edwardes, Netley Hall, Shropshire, and by descent to
Lady More (née Hope-Edwardes, formerly, Coldwell), Netley Hall, and subsequently Linley Hall, Shropshire, and by descent.

Exhibited

Photographed in situ in the drawing room at Netley Hall, circa 1905.
T. Cox, Inventory of the contents of Netley Hall, Shropshire, 1917, p. 2 (drawing room).

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Lot Essay

Anne, Princess Royal (d. 1759) was the eldest daughter of George II and Caroline of Ansbach, and wife to the Stadtholder, William IV of Orange. A great patron and practitioner of the arts, embroidery was one of Anne's many accomplishments, to the extent that in her portrait by Hendrik Pothoven, engraved by Jacobus Houbraken, 1750, this talent together with music and painting was evoked in the bottom half of the image (ed. C. Campbell Orr, Queenship in Britain 1660-1837, Manchester and New York, 2002, p. 178, fig. 12).

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