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Needlework picture

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1880-1920

GUSN

GUSN-18132

Description

This embroidered picture of a leafy flower is worked in gray, white and tan on a brown velvet ground, surrounded with a dark, carved Aesthetic-movement frame highlighted in gray and white.

Details

Descriptive Terms

needlework (visual works)
embroidering
thread
velvet (fabric weave)
flowers (plants)
floral patterns
thread
Velvet
Fiddle Thread
Embroidered
Flower
Picture, Needlework

Associated Building

Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

9.75 x 8.125 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker

Accession Number

1998.2231

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