Samuel Folwell and Ann Elizabeth Gebler Folwell's School
Mourning Embroidery Depicting Liberty Weeping at the Tomb of Washington
1799
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- Artist: Samuel Folwell
- School: Ann Elizabeth Gebler Folwell’s School
Mourning Embroidery Depicting Liberty Weeping at the Tomb of Washington
1799
Physical Qualities
Silk ground, silk embroidery threads, paint, ink, and paper, 14 3/4 x 17 in. (37.5 x 43.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of the Friends of the American Wing in Memory of William Voss Elder, III, Curator of Decorative Arts, 1963-1997
Object Number
2015.367
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2015. ex. coll Jeanne Elder Moore, ex. coll. William Voss Elder III
'Maryland: First Catholic Colony' The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD Oct. 12, 1990 - Jan. 27, 1991.
Hunt Valley Antiques Show, Hunt Valley Inn, Hunt Valley, MD 'Exhibition of painted furniture in conjunction with the Hunt Valley Antiques Show,' February 22 - February 25, 1996.
Homewood House Museum, Baltimore, 'Needles and Threads: Women's Handiwork, Men's Craftmanship,' September 6, 2001 - November 25, 2001.
Anita Jones, BMA, 'The Accomplished Stitch: American Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection,' 5/11-7/20/97, no. 21 on checklist.
Anita Jones, Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, "Mournful Maidens: Love and Loss in American Embroidery," (September 9, 2009-February 21, 2010), no catalog.
Hunt Valley Antiques Show, Hunt Valley Inn, Hunt Valley, MD 'Exhibition of painted furniture in conjunction with the Hunt Valley Antiques Show,' February 22 - February 25, 1996.
Homewood House Museum, Baltimore, 'Needles and Threads: Women's Handiwork, Men's Craftmanship,' September 6, 2001 - November 25, 2001.
Anita Jones, BMA, 'The Accomplished Stitch: American Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection,' 5/11-7/20/97, no. 21 on checklist.
Anita Jones, Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, "Mournful Maidens: Love and Loss in American Embroidery," (September 9, 2009-February 21, 2010), no catalog.
'Mournful Maidens,' "BMA Today," Fall-Winter 2009, pp. 11, ill.
Inscribed: Written in ink by hand on the monument: Ever/ shall we mourn/ thy/ LOSS" "SACRED /TO THE MEMORY OF/ THE ILLUSTRIOUS/ WASHINGTON."
