Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy, Misses Patten's School, and others
Girl with Favorite Lamb
1799-1829
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- School: Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy
- School: Misses Patten’s School
- School: Lititz Moravian Girls’ School
Girl with Favorite Lamb
1799-1829
Physical Qualities
Silk ground, silk and silver metallic-wrapped embroidery threads, watercolor, 15 3/16 x 18 11/16 x 1 1/8 in. (38.6 x 47.5 x 2.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number
2012.443
This silk embroidery by an unknown girl at an unknown school features a charming scene of a child placing a garland of flowers around the neck of her pet lamb. The theme of a girl with a favorite lamb was sometimes worked at the Moravian school in Lititz, Pennsylvania, and at schools in Connecticut. The floral festoon, pinned in three places with double and triple bowknots overtop an oval medallion outlined in metallic-wrapped threads, is most reminiscent of work done at Sarah Pierce’s academy in Litchfield, Connecticut. The oval suspended from a bow with leaves wrapping around from the top is similar to a design found in a pattern book by Johann Friedrich Netto (active 1795–1809).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2012; Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Baltimore
Lessons Learned: American Schoolgirl Embroidery
Textiles American Needlework
Herr, Patricia T. "The Ornamental Branches" Needlework and Arts from the Lititiz Moravian Girls' School Between 1800 and 1865, Heritage Center Museum of Lancaster Country
p. 42, and Fig. 27, p. 53 show Sidney Caroline Hendricks's silk embroidery of a similar scene dated 1823 and state it is by Peter Grosh and referred to by him as "a favorite Lamb." See p. 43 for bio on Grosh.
Netto, Johann Friedrich Zeichen-Mahler-und Stickerbuch zur Selbstbelehrung für Damen (Self-Study Book of Drawing, Painting, and Embroidery for Ladies), Leipzig, 1978, Published by Voss and Compagnie, Leipzig, 1798. See www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/32.121.3 for embroidery from this book with central oval very much like this-different scene.
Sizer, Theodore and Nancy, et. al. Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy 1792.1833, Litchfield, Conn: Litchfield Historical Society, 1993, p. 38, fig. 10; p. 53, fig. 16; p. 83, fig. 26; p. 85, fig. 28; p. 86, fig.30, pale 85, fig. 28;p. 86, fig. 30; p. 87, fig. 32; p. 90, fig. 36; p. 96, fig. 49.:
Schoelwer, Susan P. Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art, and Family, 1740-1840, Hartford, Conn.: The Conneticut Historical Society, 2010, pp. 118-119, fig. 41.
p. 42, and Fig. 27, p. 53 show Sidney Caroline Hendricks's silk embroidery of a similar scene dated 1823 and state it is by Peter Grosh and referred to by him as "a favorite Lamb." See p. 43 for bio on Grosh.
Netto, Johann Friedrich Zeichen-Mahler-und Stickerbuch zur Selbstbelehrung für Damen (Self-Study Book of Drawing, Painting, and Embroidery for Ladies), Leipzig, 1978, Published by Voss and Compagnie, Leipzig, 1798. See www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/32.121.3 for embroidery from this book with central oval very much like this-different scene.
Sizer, Theodore and Nancy, et. al. Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy 1792.1833, Litchfield, Conn: Litchfield Historical Society, 1993, p. 38, fig. 10; p. 53, fig. 16; p. 83, fig. 26; p. 85, fig. 28; p. 86, fig.30, pale 85, fig. 28;p. 86, fig. 30; p. 87, fig. 32; p. 90, fig. 36; p. 96, fig. 49.:
Schoelwer, Susan P. Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art, and Family, 1740-1840, Hartford, Conn.: The Conneticut Historical Society, 2010, pp. 118-119, fig. 41.
Inscribed: None
School
Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy
2000–2000
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School
Lititz Moravian Girls’ School
1799–1864
Lititz, Pennsylvania, 1800-1865
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