LARGE NEEDLEWORK PICTURE OF REBECCA AT THE WELL
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
£500
Auction: Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art
Description
worked in wool and silk in satin and knot stitches with painted silk faces, arms, feet and sky, depicting Rebecca and two young women standing by a well, Rebecca approached by a bearded man presenting a beaded necklace while an attendant holds a camel to their far left, in a tree filled landscape with sheep and flowering plants in the foreground, mounted in a gilt and gesso frame
Dimensions
48.5cm high x 71cm wide, sight size