A cut paper silhouette picture of an English manor house, within fenced gardens and extensive woodland landscape, with gardeners, huntsmen, horses and carriages, deer and hounds, a church and village to the west of the house, with paper cut signature and date Anna Maria Garthwaite, 1707, later mounted within a glazed, ebonised and parcel giltwood and composition frame, English, circa 1707 -- 15¾in. x 13in. (40cm. x 33cm.) overall.

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A cut paper silhouette picture of an English manor house, within fenced gardens and extensive woodland landscape, with gardeners, huntsmen, horses and carriages, deer and hounds, a church and village to the west of the house, with paper cut signature and date Anna Maria Garthwaite, 1707, later mounted within a glazed, ebonised and parcel giltwood and composition frame, English, circa 1707 -- 15¾in. x 13in. (40cm. x 33cm.) overall.
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Provenance

Anna Maria died without heir. The vendor's family lived near Shackleton in Kent, close to Edward Garthwaite, and the picture was possibly purchased at the dispersal of his estate in the late 18th century.

Lot Essay

Anna Maria Garthwaite, (1690-1763). The daughter of a clergyman. Designer of silk textiles for the Spitalfields factories c.1730-56.
Early Garthwaite silk designs have puzzled textile historians for a number of years, due to the fact that they do not relate to embroidery patterns. It is interesting therefore to speculate that they derive from cut paper patterns instead. Albums of her later watercolour designs are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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