18TH / 19TH CENTURY BRITISH CANVASWORK PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK PANEL, silk and wool on canvas, center featuring a circular vignette completed in silk thread tent stitches, depicting a courting scene of a shepherd playing an instrument and a shepherdess petting a sheep, they sit in a pastoral landscape with oak trees and sheep laying in front of them, this is surrounded by a probably later frame completed in wool thread, having all-over oak leaf branch design featuring acorns with French knot cupules. Housed under glass in an early burled walnut frame. 18th/19th century. 13 1/2" x 20" sight, 18 3/8" x 24 3/4" OA.
Provenance: Personal collection of Judith (Judy) Cronin, Orleans, MA.
Good to very good visual condition with overall very light toning and light fading, some scattered losses to wool thread, circular vignette with brighter colored thread along the edges possibly from being previously framed or potentially later-added thread, canvas with blue color seen between thread and at losses probably as made, frame with some wear and surface scratches, scattered hairlines. Not examined out of frame.