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Antique English Silk Mourning Embroidery "Fame Decorating Shakespeare's Tomb"
Item Details
| Item Type | Mourning Embroidery |
| Maker | Anonymous maker after Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss; 1741 – 1807) |
| Technique | Embroidery, with watercolor details to hands, feet, and head of figure |
| Manufacturing Process | Handmade |
| Materials | Silk and wool thread on silk ground with cotton stabilizer, details in watercolor paint |
| Period | Late 18th Century, Antique |
| Origin | England |
| Additional Information | Presented in wood and gesso frame under antique verre églomisé glass, with imagery in an embroidered study of Angelica Kauffmann’s Fame Decorating Shakespeare’s Tomb, a popular “mourning picture” motif of the time. |
Condition
- some lost tension to fabric resulting in ripples; discoloration, stains, and foxing throughout; evidence of insect damage in areas of loss to wool stitching and small holes to silk ground; piece has shifted under glass and upper right edge of imagery is visible; accretion throughout, with some clouding to underside of glass; scratches and wear to glass églomisé; edge wear to frame with chips and areas odf exposed gesso layer; missing frame backing leaves embroidery stitching verso and cotton stabilizer layer exposed.
Dimensions
13.0" W x 16.0" H x 1.25" D
- measures frame; visible work 9.25" W x 12.5" H.
Item #
ITMG456366
