- Maker
- Watrous, Caroline (aage 18)
- Date made
- ca. 1815
- Origin
- Colchester, CT US
- Stitches
- Satin, Encroaching satin, Long and short, Couching.
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Silk
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk, Chenille, Metallic, Sequins
- Predominent Motif
- On old man with white hair and beard, dressed in a long robe stands next to a young woman in a cream-colored dress and a white shawl. They are both looking to the R at a man on a beach in the distance. He holds a scroll in his R hand and points to the clouds which contain the head and torso of a figure playing a lyre with his L hand. A second scroll lies on the ground in the L foreground. In the L background is a cave or structure with a door which reveals a showy dark figure of a man carrying wood logs and sticks.
- Inscription
- (Painted in gold paint on the edge of the glass): CAROLINE WATROUS. A SCENE FROM THE TEMPEST
- Length Without Frame
- 22"
- Length With Frame
- 28 5/8"
- Width Without Frame
- 25 3/4"
- Wdith With Frame
- 32 1/2"
- Historical Owner
- #1986.157.0 Museum purchase
- Owner
- Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT
- Owner Private
- Connecticut Historical Society
