Cross Stitch Pattern List

Ferruzzi-Haeckel

Roberto Ferruzzi

Madonna of the Streets
A sweet-faced young woman holding a sleeping baby, against an abstract background. She is wearing a floral scarf and is wrapped in a blue cloak. Also known as Madonnina. (1897)

Alvan Fisher

The Great Horseshoe Falls, Niagara
A view of Horseshoe Falls with the sun struggling through the mist

Jean-Honore Fragonard

A Young Girl Reading
A young woman in a yellow gown with long full sleeves, white cuffs, and a white ruff leaning on a large plump cushion. Her hair is pinned up with a violet ribbon matching ones on the bodice of her dress and on her collar. Her elbow rests casually on a rail and she is reading a small book. We also offer a detail version without stitched background. (Rococo, 1776)

A Young Girl Reading (detail)
A young woman in a yellow gown with long full sleeves, white cuffs, and a white ruff leaning on a large plump cushion. Her hair is pinned up with a violet ribbon matching ones on the bodice of her dress and on her collar. Her elbow rests casually on a rail and she is reading a small book. This is a portion of the full painting, and the background is not stitched. Use medium-brown fabric such as natural linen. We also offer the full painting. (Rococo, 1776)

The Swing
A saucy girl on a swing hung from a large tree in a garden. She is wearing a pink gown and hat and her skirt is flying up to her knees. A young man crouched behind a bush is looking up her dress and laughing, as she kicks her shoe at him. The swing is being pulled by a priest who seems to be enjoying the situation, and even the statues appear to be studying the action. See FRA002-D for a chart of a portion of this painting. (Rococo, 1765)

The Swing (detail)
A saucy girl on a swing hung from a large tree in a garden. She is wearing a pink gown and hat and her skirt is flying up to her knees. A young man crouched behind a bush is looking up her dress and laughing, as she kicks her shoe at him. The statues appear to be studying the action. This detail of the full painting focuses on the man and girl; see FRA002 for a chart of the full painting. (Rococo, 1765)

James Earle Fraser

End of the Trail
An exhausted Indian carrying a lance on horseback. The horse has stopped short just before stepping over a precipice. Based on a sculpture in bronze, the background is not stitched and white fabric is recommended. (1894)

Caspar David Friedrich

The Polar Sea
A wrecked ship lying among huge shards of ice in the northern sea

Daniel Froeschl

Sunflower Seen from the Back
A botanical print of a sunflower viewed, unusually, from the back, showing the details of the calyx (sepals), the undersides of a few leaves, and the sturdy junction of stem and head. The yellow petals form a fringe around the green calyx. This is the companion to Froeschl's Sunflower, which we also offer. (about 1600)

Sunflower
A botanical print of a sunflower. The yellow petals form a fringe around the brown disk in which the tiny disk flowers are starting to show yellow and green. This is the companion to Froeschl's Sunflower Seen from the Back, which we also offer. (about 1600)

Clarence Alphonse Gagnon

The Old Mill, Indian Summer
An old mill standing in a field. Before it is the millpond reflecting green and dotted with waterlilies, with a rail fence bordering it. Behind it are trees blazing with peak fall colors. A couple more houses stand on a ridge behind the mill. (Canadian, 1919)

Thomas Gainsborough

The Blue Boy
A young Cavalier in a blue satin suit with a lace-trimmed collar and shoes with matching bows. His coat is draped over one arm and in the other hand he holds his plumed hat. He stands on a brushy hillside against a vaguely stormy background. We also offer his traditional companion, Pinkie, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, in a compatible size. (Rococo/Romantic, about 1770)

Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, shown wearing a lacy white dress with a green sash and an enormous hat, was an English socialite, political organiser, style icon, author, and activist. Of noble birth herself, she had a prominent place in society. She was the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. (1785-87)

Paul Gauguin

The Siesta
Polynesian women taking their afternoon rest on a verandah

Winter Landscape, Effect of Snow
Houses and trees dimly seen through falling snow in the eery winter light. Also known as Snow at Vaugirard, II. In the foreground is a row of small trees. Behind them is the roof of a house built downhill from the trees, and more houses behind it on rising land. (Post-Impressionist, 1879)

Charles Allan Gilbert

All is Vanity
A charcoal drawing of an elegant lady seated at her vanity admiring her reflection in a large circular mirror. The room is in darkness but candles on the dressing table light up the mirror. The lady, mirror, and bottles on the table form the illusion of a large grinning skull (which also provides a verbal play on the title). (1892)

Warwick Goble

Three Spirits Mad with Joy
Three little fairies with colored wings wearing gauzy gowns leaping onto and swinging from a spray of flowers.

Himself beheld three spirits mad with joy
Come dashing down on a tall wayside flower
That shook beneath them, as the thistle shakes
When three gray linnets wrangle for the seed
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Guinevere

This piece is solidly stitched. (Golden Age of Illustration, 1920)

John William Godward

A Congenial Task
A beautiful woman in Classical dress seated on a leopard skin braiding her long, dark brown hair. Her clothes are deep red, blue, and green. She leans on a marble wall with a base of different marble, next to a granite column on a golden pedestal. (Neoclassical, 1915)

A Red Rose
A beautiful woman in a dark red costume in the style of ancient Greece gazing pensively at a deep red rose. She has a pair of scissors in the other hand. On a marble-topped stand is a bowl of other roses in various colors. The background is a wall of marble, granite, and slate. (1920, Neoclassical)

The Tambourine Girl
A dark-haired girl in a gauzy magenta gown in the style of ancient Greece, with an orange scarf tied around her hips, pensively leaning against a marble wall holding a tambourine. (Neoclassical, 1906)

Sweet Dreams
A dreamy-eyed woman in a pink tunic resting on a fur-draped marble bench on a terrace. Her back is to a blue sky and tropical sea, with pink oleander bushes and cypress trees in the background. (Neoclassical, 1901)

Edward Goodes

Fishbowl Fantasy
A classic still life with some twists! A glass vase containing a lavish bouquet of roses, petunias, delphiniums, bleeding hearts, coral honeysuckle, and other flowers -- but the bowl also contains a couple of goldfish, and reflects people walking along a village street. On the table beside the vase are nasturtium flowers, a feather, pink kid gloves, a fan, a lace hanky, a letter, a gold cross on a chain, a keepsake box with two doves on the lid, and a small wooden cupboard. (American, 1867)

Francisco Goya

Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga
A young Spanish grandee in red with his pet cats and birds

Seymour Joseph Guy

An Interesting Book
A small girl with short brown hair wearing a red ruffled dress with lace trim stands by a table she is just tall enough to see over looking intently into a book. Her blue-gowned bisque doll stands propped by the book, and an ornately-carved chair is pulled up to the table. A dim blue twilight can be seen through an adjacent window. (American, late 19th century)

Ernst Haeckel

Orchids
A botanical painting of various species of orchids, including Cattleya and ladies' slippers and others, in shades of pink, yellow, orange, purple, and white. (1904)

Sea Anemones
Many different varieties of sea anemones, in a wide range of shapes and colors, against a variety of corals. (1904)

Hummingbirds
A collection of mostly South American hummingbirds. They are (left to right): Row 1 (top) - Ruby-throated hummingbird, Horned sungem. Row 2 - Crimson topaz (red body). Row 3 - Tufted coquette (pink crest), Sword-billed hummingbird, Red-tailed comet (forked tail). Row 4 - Buff-tailed sicklebill, White-vented violetear (pink neck, yellow shoulders), Hooded visorbearer (black head), Dot-eared coquette (green and yellow dots). Row 5 - Female Juan Fernandez firecrown (blue crest), White-booted racket-tail (appears to be sitting on eggs, but those are its legs). All are male except the Juan Fernandez. (1904)

Mosses
Many different varieties of mosses, with their fruiting bodies, in lush greens, reds, and yellows. (1904)