- Maker
- Rowe, Olive
- Date made
- 1818
- Origin
- Exeter, NH US
- Stitches
- Seed, Long and short, Straight.
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Silk
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- An 'en grisaille' (a term for painting and in this case embroidery, entirely in monochrome or near monochrome.....usually shades of grey) landscape with a church and a village on the banks of a river. Two sailboats in the distance. Two men, one poling a boat in the middle distance. Trees and bushes are done in closely worked seed stitches to create the leaves.
- Inscription
- Signed in pencil at the center bottom: O Rowe July 6(?) 1818.
- Length Without Frame
- 10 1/2"
- Length With Frame
- 11 1/2"
- Width Without Frame
- 7 1/4"
- Wdith With Frame
- 14 1/4"
- Historical Owner
- #1907.7.7 Gift of Sullivan Family
- Owner
- New Hampshire Historical, Concord, NH
