A coverlet sewn by Ann West from the Regency period featuring Biblical themes and a visit to a town that would have been recognisable to Jane Austen, is available as a hi-res image with zoom and pan. The panels show redcoats, market traders, farmers, a gipsy, chimney sweeps and more.[3472×2496]

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**Google Arts – zoom and pan image**

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/coverlet/twEYTQqdj2JtnQ

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**Pictures and text from the Victoria and Albert Museum**

**Ann West’s patchwork**

> This vibrant example of 19th-century patchwork depicts a mixture of biblical stories and scenes of ordinary people going about their daily business, revealing a glimpse of life in rural England. It is made from offcuts of coats and military uniforms, decorated with woollen appliqué (pieces of fabric sewn on to a larger piece to form a picture) and embroidered details, including the words ‘Ann West’s work’, and the date, 1820 – a clue to the maker’s identity.

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https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/ann-wests-patchwork

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If you are in the UK or have technical means to listen…

**Detailed audio guide**

**Moving Pictures, Hanging by Ann West**

> Cathy FitzGerald invites you to discover new details in old masterpieces, using your phone, tablet or computer.

> The average length of time spent looking at a painting in a gallery is 28 seconds. On Moving Pictures, we like to take a little longer. Each thirty-minute episode is devoted to a single artwork – and you’re invited to look as well as listen, by following a link to an extraordinary high-resolution image made by Google Arts and Culture. Zoom in and you can see more than the artist – the pores of the canvas, the sweep of individual brushstrokes, the shimmer of pointillist dots.

> In the first programme of this series, stroll along the high-street of a market town in Regency England – as imagined in a one-of-a-kind patchwork hanging, held in the collection of the V&A Museum. This needlework masterpiece features tiny applique scenes of everyday life – children flying kites, chimney sweeps heading home from work, a fishwife off to market. Cathy asks if one of the little characters might be the maker herself.

> Interviewees: Jenny Lister, Kerry Taylor, Deb McGuire, Linda Seward, Tracy Chevalier
> Producer and Presenter: Cathy FitzGerald

> A White Stiletto production for BBC Radio 4

> Ann West, Coverlet (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Acquired with the support of the Friends of the V&A.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09ly6rk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ly6rk

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