Live Auction 7561Simon Sainsbury The Creation of an English Arcadia
A CHARLES I NEEDLEWORK PICTURE OF FIDELITY
Lot 219

A CHARLES I NEEDLEWORK PICTURE OF FIDELITY

1641

Closed18 June 2008

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GBP 5,625

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A CHARLES I NEEDLEWORK PICTURE OF FIDELITY
1641
Delicately worked with a girl with a dog at her feet, in front of an elaborate manor house with mica detail and amid stylized floral and fauna, the cream silk ground spotted with French knots, framed and glazed
14 x 9.75 in. (35.5 x 24.8 cm.) without frame

Specialist note

Labelled to the reverse with a brief description, together with an older label: 'Opus Domina nobili Strafford acu pictun, cui maritus vir illustrissimus AD 1641 Carolo I Rege ultimo supplicio affectus est.' This translates as 'This Strafford work was made with a needle by a noble lady, for whom an illustrious married man paid the ultimate price in the year AD1641 under King Charles I'.