A NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

A NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

worked with coloured wools in tent stitch on an undyed canvas ground, depicting Elijah and the ravens, the prophet sits on a grassy mound wearing classical robes, the birds offering unleavened bread and meat, in a later glazed Hogarth type frame

23 x 19.4cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.126 for a discussion of this sampler.