AMERICAN / BRITISH SILK-EMBROIDERED NEEDLEWORK PICTURE, silk, pencil, and paint on silk, depicting a girl with painted head and hands in a fancy period dress and hat gathering flowers with one in hand, surrounded by foliage, landscape view to the right featuring a building. Housed under glass in a period gilt frame with eglomise mat. Late 18th/early 19th century. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" sight, 11 3/4" x 14 5/8" OA.
Fair to good visual condition with toning, some stain/spotting, silk ground with tears, thread with toning and fading/fugitive color, a couple of small losses to thread on leaves of tree, frame with wear, losses, chips, and other imperfections. Not examined out of frame.
Provenance: From the James Dunn collection, Springfield, VT.

Fair to good visual condition with toning, some stain/spotting, silk ground with tears, thread with toning and fading/fugitive color, a couple of small losses to thread on leaves of tree, frame with wear, losses, chips, and other imperfections. Not examined out of frame.