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19th Century Embroidery - Flight into Egypt

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A finely detailed, early 19th Century needlepoint scene showing a family gathering round the bed of an elderly man as he blesses the children. The artwork is picked out in beautiful ...

An exquisite 20th Century embroidery using the most beautiful silk threads. The colours of the threads a wonderfully bright and the flat, directional stitches give the embroidery mov...

An exquisite needlework picture depicting a still life of garden flowers inside a pierced china basket. Beautifully mounted in a period bird's eye maple frame with internal slip and ...

A charming petit point needlework from the late 19th Century, showing a heartwarming scene of an elderly couple sitting in a close embrace in their home with the cat and dog at their...

An exquisite crewel work embroidery depicting a still life of red and orange chrysanthemums in a fine glass vase. The needle work picture has been well presented in a beautiful oak w...

A beautiful George VI sampler, hand embroidered by Leah Young in 1827. Cases of the alphabet, birds and heart motifs have all been created from open stitch, cross stitch, and stem st...

Vintage In the center of Mumbai city is an unorganised labyrinthine bazaar of streets trading in commodities right from gold and silver to utensils to costume jewellery, the list...

"Porter Series: Carte L'Europe (Shower Woman)" is a tapestry by South African artist William Kentridge. It is edition 1 of 5 (plus 2 APs) and signed verso "W. Kentridge". William Kentridge is a South African graphic artist, filmmaker, and theatre arts activist especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The pungent humanism he revealed in these and other works echoed a larger European tradition of artists such as Honoré Daumier, Francisco de Goya, and William Hogarth. Kentridge, whose father was a noted antiapartheid lawyer, attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (1973–76) and the now-defunct Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–78). At various times in the 1970s and ’80s, he worked as an actor, playwright, set designer, and theatrical director, and he studied mime and theatre in Paris in the early 1980s. In 1992 he began an ongoing collaboration involving multimedia performances with Handspring Puppet Theatre (founded 1981) in Cape Town. As is clear from both his early training and his later artistic output, Kentridge’s interest in the visual arts was rooted in its connection with the theatrical arts. The narrative structure and character development in his films reflect this connection. While Kentridge pursued several avenues as an artist, at the centre of his work was a sequence of short animated films. To produce them, he made a rough charcoal drawing, photographed it, altered the drawing slightly, photographed it again, and so on. Kentridge’s original drawings are often completely effaced by their successors. Many of these films—including Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris (1989) and Felix in Exile (1994)—follow the fortunes of the greedy capitalist Soho Eckstein and his alter ego, the sensitive and artistic Felix Teitelbaum. They present modern South Africa as reflective of the spiritual, ecological, and emotional crises of late capitalism. Kentridge later established himself as a consummate figure in the performing arts, particularly for his innovative stagings of the operas The Nose (2010) and Lulu (2015) at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Wozzeck (2017) at the Salzburg Festival...

In the 17th Century, landscapes with trees, birds and rivers were popular, and often included architectural features. Plants and flowers of the time are represented. This tapestry i...

This tapestry is based on a design by William Morris (1834-1896). He was instrumental in the revival of the decorative arts at the end of the 19th century. This tapestry is French ...

Artist: after Shlomo Katz, Polish/Israeli (1937 - 1992) Title: Who Knows One (Passover) Year: 2000 Medium: Woolen Carpet Tapestry, signature in the cache Size: 120 x 95 in. (304.8 x ...

Adela Akers (b. 1933, Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is a Spanish-born textile and fiber artist. She is Professor Emeritus (1972 to 1995) at the Tyler Scho...