IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 139878 accession number: T.19-1945 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 April 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White silk embroidered with deep, mid, pale and very pale blue, deep green, yellowish-green, yellowish-brown, cream, fawn, grey, and white silks, metal thread, and purl, with attached coral beads and pearls. Stitches: bullion knot, couching, French knot, long and short, needlepoint and satin. Within an oval frame with a purl border is a portrait of a Queen Henrietta Maria (1606-1669), the head of carved wood in high relief covered with canvas, the features painted, hair real, crystal ear-drops, necklace of seed pearls and coral, bodice satin embroidered with flowers, collar of needlepoint lace, net kerchief draped over shoulders. In the background is a palace with in front of it a lake with rocky surround. Four symmetrical sprays of stylized leaves in purl spring from the centres of the four sides of the oval. In the top left corner is a rose spray and in the top right, a spray of carnation. In the bottom left is a lion with a pansy above him, and in the lower right, a leopard with wild rose above him. Both animals on grounds of moss formed by loops of tightly twisted silk. title: picture NOTES ----- type: history note value: By 1903, Rachel E. Head, Bath; by 1921, Percival D. Griffiths; between 1 October 1928 and 30 September 1929, sold by Griffiths to unknown buyer (£90). Louis Colville Gray Clarke (1881-1960), Leckhampton, Cambridge, by whom given LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139878 CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery category: raised work DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1675 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1675 culture: 17th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Stuart and Cromwellian Relics and Articles of Interest Connected with the Stuart Period title: Antique English Needlework CITATIONS -------- John Nelham's Needlework Panel Old English Needlework Embroidered Stuart Pictures, Shire Album 246 English Embroidery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700, 'Twixt Art and Nature English Needlework 1600-1740. The Percival D. Griffiths Collection, 2 vols ---