Fine and Rare Pained Silk Embriodered Picture: 'Pharaoh's Daughter', Signed Eliza Bellows, Probably Miss Patten's School, Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1800

Painted in brilliant tones on silk with figures posed around a gray stone wall, a red house in the background, the inner borders painted in pink rose vines rising from cornucopia, the whole within an inscribed eglomisé mat. Some losses to black mat, slight discoloration and fading. Signed Eliza Bellows, AE 12 years. Queen Blanch releasing captive prisoners. 25 1/2  by 26 inches.

Steve and Carol Huber, Old Lyme, Connecticut, January, 1982

In very good condition. With paint loos to upper left corner.
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