Raised work picture
Category
Textiles
Date
1625 - 1650
Materials
Satin, Silk thread, Tortoiseshell, Textile
Measurements
489 x 597 mm
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East Riddlesden Hall, West Yorkshire
NT 201619
Summary
Raised work embroidery of a woman with a castle in the background enclosed in an embroidered oval frame, the whole surrounded by embroidered mythical creatures, in tortoiseshell frame.
Full description
For a discussion of the similarity of the central image with contemporary woodcuts, see ‘Posies, Pictures and Promises, Love and the Object: The English in the Seventeenth Century' by Dr Sarah Ann Robin, Lancaster University 2016, p71 (N.B. wrong accession number cited).