Woman's Beaded Bag

Title: Woman's Beaded Bag
Description: A beaded bag that depicts two gondoliers rowing on a canal. Above the gondoliers, there is text that reads “RICORDO DI VENEZIA” (Memory of Venice). Both the figures and the text are surrounded by floral motifs.
Identifier: 2022.iitb.04
Date: mid-19th century
Spatial Coverage: Italy
Creator: Italian
Format: bags (generic containers)
Medium: beads on net and cloth
Subject: beadwork (visual works); gondolas (flat-bottomed watercraft); Grand Canal (Venice, Italy)
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art; https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/121846
Provenance: Bequest of Mrs. Frederic Graff, 1897
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