Needlework (Depicting the Four Seasons)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

c. 1660

England

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Needlework (Depicting the Four Seasons)
Place: England (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1655–1665
Medium: Silk, satin weave; embroidered with linen, silk, silk-wrapped-metal purl, and gilt-metal purl in bullion, raised and detached, knotted and twisted buttonhole, crossed, raised stem filling and satin stitches; couching, laid work, buttonhole picots, French knots, and embroidered pile; seed pearls and mica
Dimensions: 50.8 × 59.8 cm (20 × 23 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Potter Palmer II through the Needlework and Textile Guild
Reference Number: 1927.540
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Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of a Collection of Early English Earthenware and other Works of Art (London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1913), exh. no. 1.
G. Saville Seligman, “Domestic Needlework, its origins and customs throughout the centuries,” (London: Country Life, 1926), fig. A, b, pl. 82 (ill.).
William DeGregorio and Christian Jussel, English Needlework 1600-1740: The Percival D. Griffiths Collection, vol. II (New Haven and London: Yale University Press and Crab Tree Farm Foundation, 2023), 165, no. N112 (ill.).

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of a Collection of Early English Earthenware and other Works of Art, Dec. 2, 1913-Feb. 1914, exh. no. 51.
Art Institute of Chicago, European Needlework (Textile Furnishings) from the Permanent Collection, Oct. 27, 1979–Jan. 27, 1980.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, Sept. 12, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, Oct. 14, 1997- Jan. 4, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, Sept. 13, 2000- Feb. 9, 2001.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 68-69, Department of European Decorative Arts, Jan. 14- June 17, 2005.

Percial D. Griffiths, Cheldwrickbury, England, by 1913 [Burlington Fine Arts Club 1913; note on incoming receipt R3318]; sold to Frank Partidge, London, by May 2, 1927 [incoming receipt R3318, May 2, 1927; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

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