Screen
Julia Calverley, Lady Trevelyan (1706 - 1768)
Category
Furniture
Date
1727
Materials
Needlework, lacquer, leather, giltwood, paint, brass edging and castors
Measurements
250 x 61 mm
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 582790
Summary
A six-fold screen framing six petit point needlework panels worked by Julia, Lady Calverley and dated 1727. Some of the scenes are taken from Wenceslaus Hollar's engravings for the 1663 edition of Virgil's Georgics and some from the Eclogues, the figures being depicted in scenery of trees and hills in fine petit point, still retaining strong colours, each panel within a thin border strip of flowers and framed in giltwood and brass, the lower Chinoiserie panels depicting birds, mythological animals and flowers, the reverse with painted frame and floral pattern leather upper panels, plain lower panels, on castors.
Full description
The agriculturist Arthur Young visited Wallington in the 1760's and in his writings remarked on the 'needlework screen of tent-stitch, very elegant'. It was the work of Sir Walter Calverley Blackett's mother, Julia Calverley and was brought to Wallington after the sale of Esholt Hall, their Yorkshire estate, in 1755.
Provenance
Given by the Trevelyan family in 1970 in lieu of death duties on the understanding that it will never leave Wallington.
Makers and roles
Julia Calverley, Lady Trevelyan (1706 - 1768), embroiderer