Needlework Picture Depicting Orpheus Charming the Animals
first half of the 17th century
- Medium
- Linen plain weave embroidered in silk floss, silk chenille and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; glass beads; applied braid
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 21 × 31 cm (8 1/4 × 12 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
