Cross Stitch Pattern List

Lambdin-Leslie

George Lambdin

In The Greenhouse
Terra cotta pots containing red and yellow roses, calla lilies, and pink-and-red azaleas against a white-washed greenhouse wall. (Also known as "Side of a Greenhouse". 1870-80?)

Sir Edwin Landseer

Monarch of the Glen
A noble stag with 12-point antlers standing on a grassy hill, with the misty mountains of Scotland behind him. (1851)

The Arab Tent
A white mare with chestnut foal sheltering on a carpet under a canopy with a couple of hounds, with monkeys quarreling over an orange above them

Dignity and Impudence
A long-suffering large dog taking a well-deserved rest in his kennel -- but no rest is to be had: a busy little white terrier has pushed in next to him. The big dog seems to be trying to pretend that the other dog doesn't exist. A perfect image of doggy embarrassment! (1839)

The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner
A sheep dog grieves by the coffin of his friend. The shepherd's cap and staff are on the floor, and his bible sits on a small table. A couple of blankets are draped over the coffin, and willow branches are strewn about. (1837)

Fitz Hugh Lane

Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay
Sailing lumber schooners anchored for the night in Penobscot Bay. Timber is cut in the Maine woods, rolled downhill, and chuted onto these cargo ships drawn in close to shore, but now they are at rest as the sun goes down, turning the sky pink over the western islands. (1860)

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother
A destitute migrant worker with two of her seven hungry children. A photographer for the Farm Security Administration, Lange used her photos to bring the plight of migrant workers and sharecroppers to public attention. The California pea crop had failed so there was no work, and this woman, Florence Owens Thompson, had just sold her tent to buy food. (1936)

Carl Larsson

Lisbeth Reading
A young girl sitting on a built-in red and green bench reading a book which is lying on a table before her. She is wearing a brown-and-white checked dress, a red-striped apron, and black shoes and stockings. A spectacular Christmas cactus in bloom sits in the center of the glossy table. Though a doorway coats and hats can be seen, hanging on pegs along a staircase. (1904)

Breakfast in the Open
A Swedish family preparing to have breakfast in a birch grove across a river from their house. A young girl in white leans daydreaming against a tree, while an old man and a young girl tune their fiddle and lute. Women are unpacking food and utensils and setting the table, with a young man in suit and hat lounging by the table watching their preparations. (1913)

Flower Window
A little girl in a purplish dress watering plants on a bright window sill. There are fuschias, carnations, and geraniums as well as ivy and other non-flowering plants. Behind her is a round table with two chairs pulled up to it, with some knitting on the table. On the left is a couch draped with blue and white striped material and a cushion with a poppy design. On the right is a dresser. (1894)

Clarisse Madelene Laurent

Eggs
A still life of raw eggs in a saucer. The broken shells are next to the saucer on the table. There is a bunch of parsley behind them, and a fork is ready to whisk the eggs. A pewter coffee pot completes the scene. (1892)

Sir Thomas Lawrence

Pinkie
The famous young lady in a white gown with a pink-sashed Empire waist and a pink bonnet with ribbons blowing loose framing her curly brown hair. She stands on a rather abstract hilltop against a sky of blue with white clouds which are becoming stormy. Her traditional companion is Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, which we offer in a compatible size. (1794)

Master Charles William Lambton
A portrait of a young boy in a red velvet suit, reclining on a vaguely suggested rocky outcrop. He has a dreamy expression on his delicate face. This painting is commonly known as "The Red Boy".

Henri Lebasque

Young Boy Reading
A young boy lounging on an oriental rug and cushion against striped wallpaper, reading a book. He is wearing a pullover sweater, shorts, and knee socks.

Lord Frederic Leighton

Flaming June
A young woman in a gauzy orange gown curled up asleep on a formally carved sone balcony overlooking a silvery blue sea. Her warm skin tones, auburn hair, and the brown and red-brown crepe coverlet all echo the theme of summery warmth. (1895)

Eucharis, A Girl with a Basket of Fruit
Eucharis, the most beautiful of Calypso's nymphs, meets Telemachus who is searching for his father, Odysseus when Telemachus is shipwrecked on Calypso's island (in a novel based on the Odyssey). They fall in love but must part as it is his duty to continue searching for his father. Here Eucharis, serene and composed, is carrying a basket of fruit on her head through a sunny portico. (1863)

Charles Robert Leslie

The Dreamer
A young woman with dark hair wearing a pale yellow and white hooded robe with striped sleeves, pensively holding a pleated oval fan as she lounges on red and purple silk cushions. (c. 1840)

G. D. Leslie

The Young Gardener
A young mother wearing a white ruffled dress with puffed sleeves and a dark blue sash, and a straw hat, filling her small daughter's little watering can from a larger one next to a brick garden wall. The little girl is wearing a white sunbonnet and a pinafore. The flowers in the sun-dappled garden include roses, oriental poppies, and foxgloves. (1889)

The Young Gardener (detail)
A little girl in a white sunbonnet and pinafore holding a watering can in a sun-dappled garden beside a brick garden wall. This is a small detail from the full painting which we also offer. (1889)

Sun and Moon Flowers
Two sisters in complementary dresses -- the blonde girl in white with blue accents, and the brunette in blue with white accents -- sitting in a white-panelled room at a sunny window which gives a view of a rose garden, trimming sunflowers to be put into blue-and-white oriental vases. Though they are dressed in the style of the 1820s, the sunflowers and the colors blue and white are emblematic of the aesthetic movement (art for art's sake) of the late 19th century when the picture was painted. (1889)

The Language of Flowers
Two sisters, one in white and one in dark gray, have been cutting flowers in the garden and now lounge on a green leather couch before a white paneled wall with an embroidered bellpull nearby. One plays with the scissors and the other looks up the traditional meaning of a flower in a large book. (1885)

The Language of Flowers (detail)
Two sisters, one in white and one in dark gray, have been cutting flowers in the garden and now lounge on a green leather couch before a white paneled wall with an embroidered bellpull nearby. One plays with the scissors and the other looks up the traditional meaning of a flower in a large book. (1885)

The Language of Flowers (small detail)
Two sisters, one in white and one in dark gray, have been cutting flowers in the garden and now lounge on a green leather couch before a white paneled wall. One plays with the scissors and the other looks up the traditional meaning of a flower in a large book. (1885)

Tea
A young woman in the dress of the 1700s -- a red polonaise dress over a flowered petticoat, a white fichu about her shoulders with a nosegay of yellow primroses tucked into it, and a beribboned mobcap -- standing behind a table covered with a white cloth. She is about to serve tea from a blue willow tea set. Cups with spoons, cream jug, and sugar bowl with lump sugar are all ready on a tray. Behind her is a wooden chair and a white panelled wall. (1894)

Her First Place
A lackadaisical scullery maid in cap and apron, seated before a fireplace. She has a dustpan in her hand and was evidently about to clean out the grate when the temptation to take a break became too much. A black cat wearing a blue collar is also enjoying the warmth of the fire. The scullery has a brick floor and a narrow table by the wall holds a couple of crockery pieces. A few pots and pans are hung on the walls and a cupboard is around the corner from the hearth. (About 1895)

The Daughters of Eve
Two women who have been hanging laundry on a line strung from an apple tree take a break to pick and eat some apples. A young girl in a white dress is leaning against the tree trunk eating a yellow apple. A woman standing on a chair to reach the apples, wearing a green dress hiked up over a yellow petticoat, is handing an apple to the other woman in red kneeling beside the laundry basket. (1883)

Alice in Wonderland
Alice, in a blue dress and white pinafore, leaning sleepily against her reading sister.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister, ... and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book,"thought Alice "without pictures or conversations?"

For a chart in which the background (wall) is not stitched, see LES009-B. (About 1879)

Alice in Wonderland (without background)
Alice, in a blue dress and white pinafore, leaning sleepily against her reading sister.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister, ... and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book,"thought Alice "without pictures or conversations?"

The background (wall) is not stitched. White fabric is recommended. See LES009 for the original painting with background. (About 1879)