George Charles Morland
Girl Gathering Flowers in her Apron
1789-1819
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George Charles Morland
Girl Gathering Flowers in her Apron
1789-1819
Physical Qualities
Silk ground; silk, chenille, and possibly wool embroidery threads, watercolor, 12 3/8 x 10 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. (31.4 x 26.4 x 3.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number
2012.448
A silk on silk embroidery depicting a young woman standing in a landscape and gathering flowers in her apron. She wears a pink dress and a large brimmed hat with white bow. A white mountain looms in the background and a small body of water, perhaps with a waterfall appears at the left. The figure stands on flat ground and is framed by trees on either side. A butterfly appears at her shoulder. The face, hands and arms of the figure are painted on the silk ground, as is the sky and water. The rest of the picture is worked in threads of various colors including cream or off-white, dark and light taupe, pink/rose, gold, dark brown, rose red, dark and olive green, dark and light blue-green, light green, very light blue green, pink, and black. Chenille threads are used to form much of the ground, tree trunks, and the firgure's hat. Smoother silk threads are used with long and short stitches in the gown, with outlines added in black. Looped stitches add texture to the tree leaves. The ground is a silk satin weave. The picture is framed in a black eglomisé glass mat with both a wide and a thin gold stripe around the oval opening and gold corner ornaments. The neoclassical style frame is of wood covered in gesso and gilt with beading around the inner border and rope-like guioche around exterior border.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2012; Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Baltimore by purchase; Egon and Joan Teicher, Fine Prints and Americana, Hauppauge, NY
Inscribed: Printed on paper label on reverse: TELEPHONE - 465 P.O. HAMPSTEAD/EGON AND JOAN TEICHERT/FINE PRINTS AND AMERICANA/20 CARLDON LANE/HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. 11787/(516) AN5-2326 Typewritten on same label: Needlework embroidery in silk/ British/ 19th century Printed on second paper label on reverse: CHAS. H. WEST/117 FINCHLEY ROAD/SWISS COTTAGE/LONDON, N.W. GILDER AND PICTURE FRAME MAKER/MOUNTS CUT/ Old Frames Regilt equal to new/Workmen employed on premises.