CROSS STITCH, PICTURE
A finely worked picture on evenweave linen. Based on a 1700’s design, it has a manor house set in a Dutch formal garden with 3 poplar trees, 2 shade trees, a parterre garden bed, , a squirrel and 2 large urns either side
of wrought iron gates in the foreground. Surrounding the house and garden is a border of vine leaves.
The word 'VERGELEGEN 1700' are worked at the base of the design.
Vergelegen (Dutch: "remotely situated") is a historic wine estate in Somerset West, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The estate was settled in 1700 by an early Governor of the Cape, Willem Adriaan van der Stel. Van der Stel used the resources of his employer, the Dutch East India Company, to improve the estate, and in 1706 a number of free burghers at the Cape drew up a formal memorandum complaining about van der Stel's illegal activities. This memorandum contains some of the earliest images and descriptions of the estate. As a consequence of the free burghers' complaints, van der Stel and other officials were sacked, and three-quarters of the original Vergelegen estate was sold off, drastically reducing the size of the property.
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