Panel

Description

Designer, teacher, and author Ann Macbeth published this design in the fine and decorative arts magazine The Studio in 1905. The embroidery motif was intended to be part of a wall decoration. The panel exhibited here may have been made by an amateur needleworker who bought the pattern as part of a kit. Retailers including the London department store Liberty commissioned work from Macbeth for their customers.

Provenance

Judy Wenthworth, The Textile Company, London [invoice no. 5140, Nov. 16, 1993; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1993.

Panel

Ann Macbeth

about 1906

Accession Number

145452

Medium

Linen, plain weave; underdrawing in graphite; painted with pigment; embroidered with silk in detached chain, satin, single satin, and stem stitches; French knots; embellished with pearls

Dimensions

43.8 × 76.2 cm (17 1/4 × 30 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment