A needlework picture embroidered in silk threads on a silk ground depicting a pastoral scene with a shepherd and shepherdess seating beneath a tree, he playing bagpipes while she listens. Both figures are well dressed suggesting a pastoral fantasy rather than a realistic scene. The woman wheres a pale cream gown with a laced up stomacher and petticoat of blue, black shoes, and a hat with a feather and bow. She holds a flower in one hand while leaning on her crook and reasting the other arm around alamb. The shepherd wheres a blue coat, red breetches and blue stockings. He also has black shoes with bows, and a black hat adorned with a feather. The couple are seated in an idyllic landscape. Ducks swim in a pond before them. The shepherd's black and white dog sits beside him and the sheep rest nearby. A cow stands in a pasture nearby before a structure with curved gable roof and a windmill is seen in the distance. Birds fly in the sky above below clouds. All parts of the scene, with the exception of the unadorned areas of sky, are embroideried, including the faces and hands of the figures and the clouds, trees, etc. Colors used include subtle shades of light, dark and reddish gold, dark, medium, and lt. blue-green, yellow-green, black, white or creme, medium and light blue, rose-red, beige, and taupe. Stitches used include long and short, satin, encroaching satin, chainstitch, knotted stitches, stem/outline, and couched stem. Stitches are very expertly shaded and used to create texture. No part of the work is painted. A delicate chain-stitched (or tatted, or chrocheted) scalloped edge is worked around the perimeter of the oval embroidered image. The textile is framed in a gessoed and gilded wooden frame with carved ornament, which may be original.