Mourning Embroidery Dedicated to Departed Friends
1799
Physical Qualities
Silk ground, silk and silk chenille embroidery threads, watercolor, ink, Image: 11 7/8 x 10 3/4 in. (30.2 x 27.3 cm.); Framed: 19 3/4 x 17 13/16 x 2 in. (50.2 x 45.2 x 5.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Margaretta Camilla Whiting, Baltimore, MD.
Object Number
1994.469
Baltimore Museum of Art by Bequest, 1994; Margaretta Camilla Whiting, Baltimore, MD.
Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Lessons Learned: American Schoolgirl Embroideries," November 23, 2014-May 10, 2015.
Inscribed: Obverse: Written in hand in ink on monument: 'To/the memory/of/departed friends'; Reverse: Written in hand in ink on backing paper: 'mourning piece/(In circle: 'To the memory of departed friends'/embroidery on satin'; Written in ink on red and white paper label on reverse at bottom: 'M. C. Whiting'
