CIRCA 1720
Details
A GEORGE I SILK AND WOOL-EMBROIDERED NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
circa 1720
Depicting a seated lady with later painted face, holding a lute and surrounded by domestic and wild animals in a pastoral landscape with trees, birds and a mica-windowed house, worked in silk and wool in petit-point, with a typed paper label, on the back 'THE GARDEN OF EDEN' or 'THE MILLENIUM' WROUGHT ABOUT 1775 BY ABIGAIL THOMSON OLIVER (1768-1844)'
17in. (43cm.) high, 19¼in. (49cm.) wide
circa 1720
Depicting a seated lady with later painted face, holding a lute and surrounded by domestic and wild animals in a pastoral landscape with trees, birds and a mica-windowed house, worked in silk and wool in petit-point, with a typed paper label, on the back 'THE GARDEN OF EDEN' or 'THE MILLENIUM' WROUGHT ABOUT 1775 BY ABIGAIL THOMSON OLIVER (1768-1844)'
17in. (43cm.) high, 19¼in. (49cm.) wide
Provenance
Stephen & Carol Huber, Inc., East Lyme, Connecticut, 1987