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Collection Item: Embroidered Picture
Basic info
- Collection
- Costume and Textiles
- Object name
- Embroidered picture
- Object category
- Domestic textiles
- Object subcategory
- Textiles, trimmings and fragments
- Description
- Embroidered picture. Worked on canvas in wool cross stitch, the flesh worked in fine tent stitch. Depicts two elderly men stood beneath a tree with a young woman knelt before them. The background is a harvesting scene. Possibly 'Ruth and Boar'.
- Production date start
- 1840
- Production date end
- 1860
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : BA2696
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 2.46
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- ID
- 10007668
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Canvas (Whole)
- Wool (Thread)
- Dimensions
- Whole length 1,760.0 mm
- Whole width 1,310.0 mm
Production
- Technique
- Cross stitch
- Tent stitch
