A silk on silk embroidery featuring an oval medallion outlined in metallic - wrapped threads in which is depicted a small girl placing a garland of flowers around the neck of a pet sheep. The child wears a greyish-brown or taupe colored dress opened to the front with a blue petticoat showing beneath and red shoes. A white bonnet with dark rose and white ribbons appears tucked under her arm and a straw hat is dropped at her feet. She stands in a hilly patch of ground with evergreen trees to the right. Her face, hair, and the one arm and hand showing are drawn in ink and painted in. The sky is painted a soft blue and pink. Above the oval reserve is a floral garland with roses and various other flowers pinned up at the center top with rose ribbons in a double bow and draped to the corners where triple bowknots of lt. blue and white catch the garland up again, allowing the ends to fall down to the mid-point of the whole embroidery. A double row of leafy branches, one with flowers, emanating from the bow at the center top falls down and to each side of the oval, stopping just above the mid-point. The same leafy branches are found beneath the oval crossed at the lower mid-point and curling in various directions to fill the void beneath the picture. The embroidery is worked in silk threads of various colors including white, lt blue, medium blue, dk. rose, rose-pink, dk, medium, and light taupe, four or five shades of gold varying from dark to light, dk blue-green, medium blue-green, lt. green, off-white or cream, dk. charcoal grey, dk olive green, and lt. olive green on a white silk satin ground. Stitches include satin and encroaching satin in the girl's dress and most of the ground and trees, chain stitch used in two rows of metallic thread around the oval and for the string of the garland, and incredibly fine knotted stitches used in the sheep's body and undocked tail. Losses in the silk ground reveal that there is no linen lining beneath part or all of this embroidery. The work is framed in a simple carved and gilded frame, which appears to be the original for this work, but which may have been a frame previously used for a vertical print or embroidery (hanging holes are found in the upper short member).