Worked in various stitches including satin and French knot in light and dark brown, gold, and light and dark green silk threads with watercolor sky and faces depicting a classically garbed shepherd, maiden, putti and sheep in a pastoral landscape with riv

With its classical theme, naturalistic setting, and watercolor background, this pictorial needlework is typical of the work created by female students in American academies in the early nineteenth century. While the needlework was probably copied from an engraved or drawn print source, the glomis mat may have been made by a specialized glass painter. For a similar work see Cooper, Classical Taste in America 1800-1840 (New York, 1993), p.257, fig.207.