A square silk on silk embroidery depicting a well-dressed young woman seated under a tree by a stream, holding a book in her lap. To her right on the other side of a tree sits a black and white dog. The woman's face and hands, and the background sky and mountains are painted in with watercolors. The clothing, landscape, and dog are worked in thread. This scene is contained within a roundel, which is surrounded on all sides by painted flowers and butterflies. At the bottom of the needlework are two cornucopia joined at the ends and overflowing with fruits (on one side) and flowers (on the other). The inscription telling the name of the maker, date, and (presumably) hometown is drawn in black ink at the bottom of the painted ornament. The embroidery is worked in silk and silk chenille threads in shades of tan, brown, beige, yellow, green, blue, pink and black. Stitches used are encroaching satin, stem or outline and feather. The watercolor paints used include reds, pinks, browns, tans, beiges, blues, greens, black, grey and creme. This needlework is framed in a gold leafed Federal period American frame of no later than 1825, and glazed with an old glass that has distortions and imperfections. {Per Jim Brewster, Presentations, frame conservator/restorer).