Small needlework picture depicting a sentimental scene with a child helping her mother gather twigs and carry them to their cottage in the distance. Mother and child, each dressed in red, hold bundles of branches or twigs over their shoulder or head. Both stand before a pair of trees with large trunks. A woven basket is on the ground between them. To the right in the distance is a field behind a wooden fence;to the left is a small cottage with a chimney, thatched roof, door, and two windows with additional trees standing beside it. The picture is worked in multiple colored wools (with possibly a very little silk) [micro fiber i.d. required] on a cream silk ground in violet red, orange-red, red rose, pink, greens, blues, taupes, browns, etc Knotted stitches, satin stitch, etc. are employed in very finely worked embroidery with great detail, even extending to the shading in the socks worn by the subjects and the weaving of the basket, as well as the thatched roof of the cottage. Both the faces and hands of the subjects are finely painted, especially the child’s. The embroidery is set in what appears to be a period gessoed and gilded frame with a black and gold églomisé mat--also possibly period.