The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper barrel shaped box all from 1904

all from 1904

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

blue and black

And then this gorgeous raw edge around the top

The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper barrel shaped box all from 1904My 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