A SMALL VICTORIAN WOOLWORK PICTURE SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY titled 'Tom Thumb at Court', petit point stitch on a canvas ground, depicting in the centre the figure of Tom Thumbs on a red carpet, flanked by theatrical red curtains, in a glazed bird's eye maple frame 15 x 14cm Provenance Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller. Literature The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.183 for a discussion on this sampler. Catalogue Note This embroidery celebrates the event when Charles Sherwood Stratton of Connecticut, known as General Tom Thumb, a member of P.T. Barnum's Museum was presented to Queen Victoria. Charles was a little over two foot high. Read more »
A SMALL VICTORIAN WOOLWORK PICTURE SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY titled 'Tom Thumb at Court', petit point stitch on a canvas ground, depicting in the centre the figure of Tom Thumbs on a red carpet, flanked by theatrical red curtains, in a glazed bird's eye maple frame 15 x 14cm Provenance Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller. Literature The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.183 for a discussion on this sampler. Catalogue Note This embroidery celebrates the event when Charles Sherwood Stratton of Connecticut, known as General Tom Thumb, a member of P.T. Barnum's Museum was presented to Queen Victoria. Charles was a little over two foot high. Read more »
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