Worked in silk, chenille, and watercolor on silk; image based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 publication of "The Sufferings of Young Werther" depicting a woman, Charlotte, holding a spray of flowers mourning at an urn topped memorial to Werter, whose unrequited love for her became a popular theme in needlework and miniatures; her face is delicately painted; trees worked in chenille in background; housed in oval frame with verre eglomise frame with the maker's name and home in gilt, "Marg. Baugh / Llanymynech (Montgomery, Wales). Research shows the maker was born 2/25/1783 in Llanymynech to Robert Baugh and Catherine Edwards and married Richard Owen of Cornwall, England in December 1805.

Very minor shattering of silk, soe touch up to eglomise frame.

From a 30 year Americana Collection.

SS 8" x 7"; DOA 13.75" x 12.5"

$300 - 500