Embroidered Georgian pictures
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Embroidered Georgian pictures
（Shire library, no. 307）
Shire Publications, c1994
Available at 1 libraries
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Transferred to digital print on demand 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. 32)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Meticulously embroidered pictures that could be framed and displayed formed a part of a girl's education through the Goergian period in Britain (1714-1830). This book shows the variety of subjects and techniques and also glances at the work produced in American schools. As well as schoolgirls, outstanding women like Miss Morritt, Mrs Knowles and Miss Linwood produced large embroidered pictures to simulate paintings, greatly admired at the time, but now totally neglected. Pictorial needlework also adored upholstery, chair seats, screens and wallhangings. This book will be a useful handbook for collectors, museum curators and antique dealers, and an inspiration to the modern needlewoman.
Table of Contents
- Eighteenth century embroidery
- Biblical pictures
- Pastoral scenes
- Theatrical and literary scenes
- Memorial pictures
- Needlepainting
- Needlework furnishings
- Other techniques
- Further reading
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