A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

MID-19TH CENTURY

worked with silk floss on a silk ground, with various techniques and stitches, and with applied seedpearls for details, depicting probably Queen Victoria, together with a missionary man and a nun in an exotic landscape, meeting with a distinguished figure wearing detailed and expensive looking garment, a cape, with a headdress with a large feather and an impressive sword, with a guard behind him holding a spear, amongst palm trees, the faces, hands and feet of the figures with applied engraved pictures, in a verre eglomise glazed gilt frame

31 x 42.7cm

Provenance

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