Erminea
Selina Skull
Category
Textiles
Date
1800
Materials
Silk, watercolour paint and giltwood
Measurements
495 x 430 x 35 mm
Order this imageCollection
Benthall Hall, Shropshire
NT 509909
Summary
Needlework picture, 'Erminea'. Silk, watercolour oval needlework picture of a full-length female figure, kneeling in profile to the right in landscape setting. Wearing classical robes and feeding a pair of swans in the foreground to the right. Classical temple in background to the left. Plain giltwood frame, gilt oval slip, black inner border. Inscribed - ERMINEA. S.SKULL. FECIT (painted on glass in gilt on black background). 1800 (circa).
Provenance
Benthall collection.
Marks and inscriptions
ERMINEA. S.SKULL. FECIT (painted on glass in gilt on black background)
Makers and roles
Selina Skull, embroiderer