Picture (Needlework)

England

Year

1657

Medium

Silk, satin weave; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in tent stitches; and with silk, satin weave and linen, plain weave; and silk, silk chenille, silk bouclé, silk-wrapped-metal coils, and linen in back, coral, eyelet, overcast, Roman, satin, single satin, single running, stem, raised stem, split and a variety of buttonhole stitches; laid work, couching, padded couching, French knots and bullion picots; mica, glass beads and seed pearls

Dimensions

45.1 × 61.4 cm (17 3/4 × 24 1/8 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago