An embroidered mourning picture featuring an oval memorial medallion. The medallion is suspended from a blue bowknot with a rose floral center. Above the medallion and to the sides hang naturalistic floral sprays and swags. Below the medallion is a pink drape which is brought about one-third of the way up the sides. Within the oval medallion is a monument with a neoclassical urn bestrewn with flowers which stands upon a grassy hill between trees with heavily worked leaves. The embroidery is worked in silk threads using satin, chain, French knots, stem, and couched stitches in light peach, several shades of pink, yellow, blue-green, light and dark green, brown (including golden brown), sky blue, off-white, and several shades of mauve. The narrow border of the medallion is chain-stitched and ornamented with metallic spangles, some of which are 3/32' in width and arranged in clusters alternating with other larger single spangles approximately 1/8' wide. The ground of the embroidery is white silk satin. The needlework is framed in a reproduction eglomise mat with octagonal window and floral corner ornaments. It is framed in a reproduction federal-style gilded frame. +ADDITIONAL REMARKS, Cont'd.: Hodges, on Dec. 30, 1797 Dr. Thomas Ramsey Hodges II married Deborah Berry. Their second child was Mary Ann Hodges. Deborah Hodges died following the birth of her third child in 1803. Mary Ann Hodges (born February 1802, died August 1846 according to Reichel) married her cousin Captain Thomas Eversfield on February 11, 1822. They had five sons. The design of Mary Ann Hodges' memorial to her mother closely resembles a drawing of an urn on a monument drawn by Salome (Sally) Fetter, a teacher at Lititz 1791-1809 who went to Salem, N.C. but later appears to have be in Bethlehem. **This figure represents the actual size of the object as flattened out on a new mat. (New mat size: 19 H x 19-3/4' (48.3 x 50.2 cm.). Note that by 1985 this piece had been removed from its stretcher and frame (which was probably not the original frame). No record of this procedure has been found and no frame appears to exist which would fit this work. In 1996 a new mat was created by Jim Brewster of Presentations, Baltimore, Md.. The design of the mat was based in part on one used on a similar Bethlehem embroidery by Eliza Boller dated 1813 which was published in Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, Vol. II, p. 441, fig. 494. A reproduction federal-style frame was also made in order that the piece could be protected and exhibited. ***Must be retained indefinitely, and displayed as a collection to the extent possible. ****The needlework was appraised in March 1974 by Charles Rogers for $400.00.