John Nelham's Needlework Panel
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Article by Margaret Swain on a seventeenth-century English raised-work (stumpwork) picture on white satin at Blair Castle, inscribed in ink with the name and address of John Nelham, a London embroiderer and pattern drawer at the Sugar Loaf, Grayfriars, Newgate Market. She compares it with related oval-medallion panels in the V&A, Bayou Bend, St. Louis, Nottingham, the Metropolitan Museum and the Fitzwilliam, and discusses how designs were drawn out on satin from printsellers' engravings. She dates the panel to 1654-1660 and cautions against attributing all similar panels to Nelham's workshop. Nine plates, references and a table of oval dimensions are included.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1982
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 14
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