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.
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".]