A SMALL VICTORIAN WOOLWORK PICTURE

A SMALL VICTORIAN WOOLWORK PICTURE

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

titled 'Tom Thumb at Court', petit point stitch on a canvas ground, depicting in the centre the figure of Tom Thumbs on a red carpet, flanked by theatrical red curtains, in a glazed bird's eye maple frame

15 x 14cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.183 for a discussion on this sampler.

Catalogue Note

This embroidery celebrates the event when Charles Sherwood Stratton of Connecticut, known as General Tom Thumb, a member of P.T. Barnum's Museum was presented to Queen Victoria. Charles was a little over two foot high.