A QUEEN ANNE CANVAS WORK PICTURE

NEW ENGLAND, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A QUEEN ANNE CANVAS WORK PICTURE
New England, mid-18th century
Worked in blue, green, red, ivory, brown, white, black and pink wool threads depicting a pastoral scene with a reclining shepherdess with a dog and squirrel among trees, strawberries and flora below a soaring butterfly and bird
10 x 14in.

拍品專文

This needlework is part of a larger tradition of canvas work pictures produced by school girls in 18th century New England. The similarity of these works, from palette to such stock motifs as trees, animals, buildings and human figures attest to their popularity among daughters of the well-to-do. More specific motif combinations and repeated manners of execution, such as the bird adjacent to the spiky tree diving into the contrasting puffy tree all with a strawberried bottom border also may suggest a common print source.

A canvas work picture by Hannah Phillips (1742-1764), who was born in North Andover, Massachusetts, and was the elder sister of Samuel Phillips, who ultimately founded Phillips Academy Andover, is closely related to the needlework illustrated here. This needlework is presently in a private collection.