Needlework Picture Showing a Shepherd and Shepherdess with Their Flock

Description:

Needlework Picture Showing a Shepherd and Shepherdess with Their Flock, England, mid-18th century, worked on a linen ground, the shepherd with long blue coat playing his flute, the shepherdess in red dress seated with her crook under a tree, surrounded by eight sheep and a dog, on the hillside rendered in stripes of green and yellow, below the sky with rainbow and birds, (slightly faded, minor losses to ground in sky),15 3/4 x 12 in., in a black-painted parcel-gilt frame.
Estimate $4,000-6,000


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