Embroidered picture
date: label: Date
content: late 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Embroidered picture. Three depths: in foreground, a landscape with flowers, a pond and animals (from left to right: lion, stag, leopard and unicorn); in middle ground, two women, one holding a lute, a bearded man in armor and feathered headdress, a youth in armor with banner, and a military camp; in background, a mountainous landscape with clouds, birds, a sun, a rainbow, and three women with staffs. Counted stitches using silk, stem, cross, padded satin, and tightly pulled deflected elements. Couched silk-wrapped silk and silk-wrapped wire.
place: label: made in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1951-34-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Embroidered picture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic yarns, silk-wrapped wire on linen Technique: embroidered on plain weave canvas
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 51 × 39 cm (20 1/16 × 15 3/8 in.)