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This partially completed needlework picture is laid out on what appears to be an unbleached ground, possibly linen, with raw edges. It shows a line drawing in sepia of a pastoral scene with a woman at rest under tree and a shepherd with his horn and dog at right.
needlework (visual works)
linen (material)
wool (textile)
Picture, Needlework
Gilman Garrison House (Exeter, N.H.),
Unknown
Boston, Massachusetts
20 x 21 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of William Perry Dudley
1966.1392
Possibly Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly
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