The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper barrel shaped box lots of irregularities indigenous to

lots of irregularities indigenous to it

and the careful writing of VALENTINE

the drawing here is mounted with (removable) archival tape to a piece of onionskin writing paper that matches it nearly exactly in color and which I wrapped around a piece of board for structure and then plugged with foam core and taped on the reverse side

At some point it must have been glued to a base or part of some larger scenario

all from 1904

The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper barrel shaped box lots of irregularities indigenous toMy happiest surprise find of the week, at an antiques shop in southern Maine this is quite a marvelous and special feeling thing. The embroidery hand dyed silk thread on laid paper is an early one, early 19th century I believe, depicting my personal favorite Biblical scene, "the Visitation," when Mary, pregnant with Jesus, visits her cousin Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist. The scene is wonderfully, tenderly depicted here, the two