Beschreibung:

Embroidered picture. A late 18th century picture of a lady, hand-stitched and painted picture on coarse linen, head and shoulders portrait of a lady, wearing a wig and a wide-brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich feathers, worked in silk threads in black, brown, and cream, with a touch of red, wig stitched with strands of hair, mainly using long and short stitch and buttonhole stitch, some loss of stitching, hat embellished with spangles, face carefully drawn in, 17.5 x 12.5 cm (7 x 5 ins), framed and glazed, together with a Victorian tapestry picture depicting two children in the garden of a house, 21 x 16 cm (8.25 x 6.25 ins), framed and glazed (Qty: 2)