Dimensions
20.5ins high, 26.6ins wide, 1ins deep
Circa Date
Victorian, circa 1860
Description - ID#23092
Antique Sailor's Woolwork Embroidery Picture of Ships in a Bay. The embroidery is worked in wool on linen ground, in a variety of stitches. Colours blue, brown, cream, green, black, grey, orange and red. Scene depicts a bay with a large three masted sailing ship, a smaller sailing ship, two steam powered boats and a rowing boat on the water. On the shore there is a village on a hill, with buildings, a church and windmills. Framed in an old veneered wooden frame with rippled, old glass. Mounting: The embroidery is tacked to a wood stretcher frame. Frame backed with paper.
Condition Summary*
Good. Minimal damage, which does not detract from the piece.
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