Antique English Silk Embroidery Georgian Sampler, c.1777, Shepherd Moses and Sheep, Landscape
"God called to him out of the midst of the bush and said Moses ! Moses." The theme os this charming girl's sampler, England, the tomb dated 1777, it is a young girls needlework sampler completed in fine silk threads and chenille work showing a humbled shepherd and his sheep, him with shoes off and bowing before a burning bush. In that Georgian era, girls were not always taught to read, but they were taught to do fine stitchery, and this would have been one done by a relatively young girl. The faces are painted, and you see the intricacies of the silkwork are in a lovely variety of stitches. A red stitched border around it. Very good to excellent as these early silk embroideries go. The frame and glass are not original to it, but are protecting it beautifully. Little, if any, fading to the dyed silks, and no deterioration at all to the finely worked silk oval embroidery. Originally, the silkwork would have been framed with a cover glass back-painted in black with a gold edge to the aper