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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Mary Jane Newill, 'The Idle Lake' embroidery, ca. 1899

Mary Jane Newill

'The Idle Lake' embroidery, ca. 1899
Silk embroidered on cotton or linen
Made by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Executed by Mary Newill and E. E. Bloxcedge
H. 68 7/8 in. (175 cm) - w. 44 1/2 in. (113 cm)
Inscribed THE IDLE LAKE and PHAEDRIA
Unique piece
PRIVATE COLLECTION
PRIVATE COLLECTION

Provenance

Presumably commissioned for the dining room at Top o’ the Hill, 14 Driffold, Sutton Coldfield, Birmin- gham, UK - The house was designed by architects Crouch & Butler and was the home of Edmund Butler - Claydon Auctioneers, Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, 30th December 2021, lot 1394 - British private collection - Paul Reeves, London.

Exhibitions

Two other panels from this group, The Wandering Wood and The House of Holiness, were presented by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts at the 1900 Paris World Fair in the British Pavilion

Literature

The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Arts 1899-1900, pages 186 to 188 - ‘The Paris Exhibition 1900’, in The Art Journal, 1901, page 136 (for an in situ photograph of The Wandering Wood and The House of Holiness at the Paris World Fair).

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