This embroidered panel was designed and made by the couple George Washington Jack and Annie Christian Jack. Annie’s creative interpretation of George’s drawing makes the scene come to life through her rendering of the textures in the owl’s plummage, tree bark and pine-cones. The inscribed scroll below reads: “Then nightly sings the staring Owl tu whittu who”, taken from William Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost. The panel was exhibited by the Jacks at the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs de Grande Bretagne et d’Irlande at the Louvre, Paris in 1914 (catalogue number 633).
