An English embroidered and stumpwork falcon, Victorian 19th century

worked in polychrome wool, silk and chenille threads, applied with shaped worked canvas motifs in tent stitch in gros and petit point, the composition with a profile of a perched hawk on a branch, with stumpwork passion fruit flowers and additional embroidered and trailing stems, with a surrounding exuberant swag of exotic flowers including lilies, worked in stumpwork in polychrome chenille and silk threads, mounted onto a natural coloured unworked canvas, now mounted in a later square carved gilt wood un-glazed frame

Lanto Synge, Art of Embroidery, History of Style and Technique, The Royal School of Needlework, London, 2001, Chapter Nine, 19^th Century, Berlin Woolwork, pp.261-266, fig.258, illustrates this panel and discusses the subject and techniques used.