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Mary Sterett

Advice/Industry

1783

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Mary Sterett

Advice/Industry

1783

Physical Qualities Linen ground, silk embroidery threads, Sight: 13-5/8 x 8-1/8 in. (34.6 x 20.6 cm.) ; Framed: 16-1/4 x 10-3/4 x 1 in. (41.3 x 27.3 x 2.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Mary Sterett Gittings
Object Number 1948.26
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 1948; Miss Mary Sterett Gittings
Susan Cumins, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Period Needlework in America 1739-1865, 1978, cat. #5; circulating to Arundel Center, Annapolis; Cecil County Public Library, Elkton; City Hall Museum and Cultural Center, Salisbury; The Museum in the Mall, Columbia; St. Mary's County Memorial Library, Leonardtown; St. Timothy's School, Stevenson; Washington College, Chestertown.

Needlework Exhibition, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD, January 11-March 1, 1956.
Susan Cumins, 'Period Needlework in America 1739-1865,' Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1978, cat. 22; traveling exhibition circulated to Annapolis, Elkton, Salisbury, Columbia, Leonardtown, Stevenson, and Chestertown, Md.

Inscribed: See description for poem/sayings. Signed with black thread at bottom: "Mary Sterett/17[8]3" [Note, the third number is partially gone. It could be interpreted as a "I", a "5", a "6" or an "8".]

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American, 1772-1847

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Robert Macaire, Hypnotist. This is a perfect subject for hypnosis... There is absolutely no connection between us... I do not know Mademoiselle de St. Bertrand, and you gentlemen, are going to be able to experience the effect of somnambulism.... (In her sleep, Mlle de St. Bertrand gives diagnoses on everybody’s ailments, omdocates hidden underground treasures, gives investment advice conc. the Mozart Paper Co. stocks, in gold mines and in other fine investments.)
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