Four Framed Stevengraphs

Silk, England, c. 1880s.

Two are from the fox hunt series and are the images "Full Cry" and "The Death," with eglomise glass and dark frames (each 13.75 x 9.12 in.) (significant bubbling to black eglomise, scuffing to frames, light discoloration to silk, otherwise good estate condition);

Second two are a pair called "The Good Old Days" and "The Present Time" showing a mail coach in one and a steam locomotive in the other to illustrate the changing times, in original mats with titles and manufacturing information, each framed so that the Stevengraph advertisement on the back of the original matting shows on reverse (each 10.12 x 6.25 in.) (fading, discoloration, matburn, and loss to silk). None examined out of frames.

Private Collection Virginia

After an Anglo-French free trade treaty collapsed the ribbon industry in Coventry, England, in 1860, Thomas Stevens repurposed the jacquard ribbon looms to create collectible decorative pictures woven in silk, naming his invention the Stevengraph.