Girl Wearing Hat with Yellow Bow
1789-1819
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Girl Wearing Hat with Yellow Bow
1789-1819
Physical Qualities
Silk ground; silk, silk chenille, and possibly wool embroidery threads, watercolor, 12 1/4 x 10 1/8 x 1 1/4 in. (31.1 x 25.7 x 3.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number
2012.449
A silk on silk embroidery depicting a young woman standing in a landscape. She wears a cream dress and a large brimmed hat with gold bow. A white hill appears in the background and a small cottage stands in the distance with trees behind and with a stream running by it doors is found to the left. A small figure, hooded in black, and wearing knee britches, possibly holding with a farm implement is also seen in the field to the viewer's left. The larger figure of the young worman stands on a flat foreground and is framed by a large tree on the right. 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, yellow gold, dark gold, shades of brown,brown, dark and olive green, dark and light blue-green, light green, very light blue green, rose red, and black. Chenille threads are used to form much of the ground, tree trunks, and the figure'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; probably Egon and Joan Teicher, Fine Prints and Americana, Hauppauge, NY
Inscribed: 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. Written by hand on reverse: "TR" [possibly referring to it's possition on Miss Scott's bedroom, which was at the top right of the chest on chest. Also written in dark: "77"
