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Folwell School – SILK EMBROIDERED PICTURE
“THE PARTING of HECTOR and ANDROMACHE”
Probably Student of Ann Elizabeth Folwell School
Philadelphia – Early 19th Century

Embroidered and painted on silk with figures of Hector and Andromache standing in an open garden. The sky, background, figures, faces and limbs are painted on a silk background. The elements of Classical architecture, as well as, the lush landscape are rendered in metallic threads, chenille and embroidered stitchery. The picture is framed in a eglomise mat and placed within a gesso gilded Neo-Classical frame. The students interpretation of Hector taking leave of Andromache is a scene from Book Six of the Iliad. It shows Andromache biding a tender and tearful adieu to her handsomely armored Hector. Behind them is their infant son.

“Who shrank back to his fair girdled nurse’s bosom screaming, and frightened at the aspect of his own father, terrified as he saw the bronze and crest with its horse-hair nodding dreadfully, as he thought, from the peak of the helmet.”

The scene was a popular needlework with American school girls. This is an unusually large example. The embroidered picture was not only romantic and dramatic but also applicable, for Hector requests that his wife “go therefore back to our house and take up your own work, the loom and the distaff.”

References: American needlework Treasures From the Collection of Betty Ring,

The Magazine Antiques Feb. ‘81 pages 420 -423, April ‘75 pages 688 – 701

Estate found condition – no repairs or repainting

Frame: Height: 31 5/8   Width: 36 5/8″

Inventory: T-N-3028

$ 16,500.00

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Folwell School – Philadelphia – SILK EMBROIDERY

£16,50000

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