Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 21

Pair Silkwork Embroidered Pictures of Shepherd Shepherdess

$2,823.07per set
£2,060per set
€2,422.34per set
CA$3,915.32per set
A$4,215.20per set
CHF 2,257.32per set
MX$50,791.66per set
NOK 28,481.14per set
SEK 26,064.85per set
DKK 18,100.70per set

About the Item

Pair of oval Antique Georgian Silkwork Embroidered pictures depicting a shepherd and shepherdess in a country scene. The embroidery is worked in silk on a silk ground, with painted details on the ground. Colours browns, cream, green, pink, blues and grey. Wonderfully stitched scenes - the shepherd holding a crook, sat beneath a tree, his sheep in the foreground and a cottage in the background. The shepherdess is similar, with a picnic basket beside her. Framed in an old, gilded, gesso frame with rippled, old glass.. Dimensions exclude the frame and slip.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14.6 in (37.09 cm)Width: 11.6 in (29.47 cm)Depth: 1.6 in (4.07 cm)
  • Sold As:
    Set of 2
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1800
  • Condition:
    Refinished. The embroideries are in very good condition. The frames are in fair condition. Frames with visible splits where original joins are present from the making, but they are sturdy. Also showing some wear. Enamel under the glass has flaked away in places.
  • Seller Location:
    Chelmsford, GB
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 232621stDibs: LU4246146636332

More From This Seller

View All
Pair Georgian Woolwork Embroidered Pictures of Girls with Pets
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Pair of Georgian woolwork embroidered pictures of girls with their pets. Both are worked in wool threads on a silk ground, in a variety of stitches. With the girls' heads and arms ha...
Category

Antique 1820s Tapestries

Materials

Silk

Pair of English Petit Point Needlework Picture Panels
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
A pair of petit point needlework panels, framed in walnut frames, that have candle arms and sconces fitted to the bottoms. In the style of early 18th century originals, but worked in...
Category

Antique Early 1900s Tapestries

Materials

Silk

17thC Miniature Silkwork Embroidery Reversable Picture
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Late 17th Century, Miniature Silkwork Embroidery Reversable Picture. The embroidery is extremely finely worked in coloured silk threads on a paper or felt ground. Colours blues, gree...
Category

Antique 17th Century Tapestries

Materials

Silk

Victorian Petit Point Embroidery of a Shepherd with Sheep
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
A Victorian petit point woolwork embroidery of a shepherd with his flock of sheep. He leans against a tree, with his dog by his side. One sheep has a crow on it's back. The piece is ...
Category

Antique 1860s Tapestries

Materials

Wool

17th Century Antique Silkwork Applique Picture
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
17th Century Antique Silkwork Applique. The applique has hand-stitched silkwork slips/motifs, sewn onto a silk ground. These decorative elements were embroidered separately before be...
Category

Antique 17th Century Tapestries

Materials

Silk

Georgian Woolwork Embroidered Picture of Guinea Pigs
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Georgian Woolwork Embroidered Picture of Guinea Pigs in a garden scene. The embroidery is worked in wool threads on a canvas ground, in a variety of stitches. Pictorial scene depicts...
Category

Antique Early 1800s English Tapestries

Materials

Wool

You May Also Like

Fine Pair of English 18th Century Silkwork Pictures
Located in Lymington, GB
A fine pair of English George III-period silkwork pictures, dated 1797. These are charming Georgian (late 18th century) needleworks of children play...
Category

Antique 1790s English Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

Silk Needlework Picture Showing Shepherdess and Her Flock, England, circa 1840
Located in Katonah, NY
The shepherdess is lovely. She is seated near her flock under the shade of a leafy tree, wearing a green and white dress and a hat with red trim....
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

Regency Oval Silk Embroidery of a Shepherdess
Located in New York, NY
Extremely fine embroidery of a neoclassical maiden dressed as a shepherdess in a forest with a rustic thatched cottage in background. Wonderful use of short and long stitches and sha...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

Antique Georgian Silkwork Embroidery Depicting a Woman with a Lamb, Yorkshire
Located in Bristol, GB
ANTIQUE ORIGINAL GEORGE III SILK AND GILT THREAD NEEDLEWORK EMBROIDERY A charming depicting of a young woman holding a lamb in a landscape. The artist has expertly used different t...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century British George III Tapestries

Materials

Gesso, Wood, Glass, Silk

Pair of Large Painted French Pastoral Canvas Panels
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Decorative pair of French Pastoral painted panels on wood stretchers.
Category

20th Century French Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas

Pair of oil paintings on panel – Young Shepherdesses – 19th century
Located in Madrid, ES
Charming pair of oil paintings on wood panels depicting two young shepherdesses in a bucolic landscape. Each figure, dressed in 19th-century country fashion and wearing a straw hat, ...
Category

Antique 19th Century French Romantic Paintings

Materials

Wood