Needlework Picture by Unknown Maker

Dateca. 1810

OriginAmerica or Europe, France or Great Britain

MediumSilk embroidery and metallic threads on a silk ground; framed in a gilded wooden frame with a metal ring for hanging and under glass

DimensionsFramed OH: 4 7/8" x Framed OW: 6 3/8"

Credit LineBequest of Beatrix T. Rumford

Object number2022-58

DescriptionThis is a small silk embroidered picture in shades of blue, green, brown, tan, and cream on a cream-colored silk ground. The picture consists of a cemetery scene with an urn on a plinth, cross, grassy knolls, blue floral sprigs, three evergreen trees, and one large tree on the right side. The scene is enclosed in a border of scalloped couched metallic threads and outer border made up of a double row of finely worked chain stitches. The penciled inscription below the scene is indecipherable.
The embroidered picture is framed in a gilded wooden frame that has a metal ring for hanging in the center top; it is under glass.
Stitches: chain, French knots, couched, outline/stem, and satin
Label TextThis small silk embroidery depicts a cemetery scene. It is worked in chain, couched, French knots, outline, and satin stitches with silk and metallic embroidery threads on a silk ground.
InscribedIndecipherable inscription beneath embroidered scene
Inscription on back of cardboard backing reads: "To Trixie/ In memorium "The Dear Departed"/ Copperstown, N. Y./ May 1, 1965/ R. C. R./ &/ L. R. II".
ProvenanceThe needlework picture is from the estate of Beatrix T. Rumford; no further provenance is known.