It's Only Me
Embroidered Picture
1990 (made)
1990 (made)
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Jane Poulton is well known for her small embroidered pictures of figurative subjects, often featuring animals and birds. She also works as an illustrator, and her paintings, like her embroideries, are on an intimate scale, and convey a subtle humour.
'It's Only Me' is worked in satin stitch on linen with mercerised cotton threads.
'It's Only Me' is worked in satin stitch on linen with mercerised cotton threads.
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Title | It's Only Me (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Linen scrim embroidered in satin stitch with mercerised cotton |
Brief description | Picture panel of linen embroidered in satin stitch with mercerised cotton, designed and made by Jane Poulton, England, 1990 |
Physical description | Picture panel of linen embroidered in satin stitch with mercerised cotton. With simplified figures of a bird in the first section, the sun and a flower in the middle section, and a snail and a tree in the third. |
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Object history | Purchased. Registered File number 1989/1925. Poulton's embroidered miniatures combine naive imagery with influences from historical embroidery, although the swirling stitching in this picture, inspired by details in English medieval church embroidery, is entirely worked by machine. |
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Summary | Jane Poulton is well known for her small embroidered pictures of figurative subjects, often featuring animals and birds. She also works as an illustrator, and her paintings, like her embroideries, are on an intimate scale, and convey a subtle humour. 'It's Only Me' is worked in satin stitch on linen with mercerised cotton threads. |
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Accession number | T.162-1990 |
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Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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