Needlework Picture Depicting an Allegory of Music
17th century, about 1640
- Medium
- Probably linen, plain weave; appliquéd with silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave over bast fiber padding; embroidered with silk, silk-wrapped-metal-wire coils, silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and feathers in bullion, buttonhole,…
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 21.9 × 35.2 cm (8 5/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Alice H. Patterson in memory of Florence H. Crane
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
