Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Mourning Embroidery without Dedication
1804
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Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Mourning Embroidery without Dedication
1804
Physical Qualities
Silk ground, silk and silk chenille embroidery threads, paint, ink, Sight (Embroidered Image only): 12 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (31.8 × 23.5 cm.)
Framed: 18 1/4 × 15 × 1 3/4 in. (46.4 × 38.1 × 4.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ellen Morton Schaeffer
Object Number
1924.2.2
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1924; Ellen Morton Schaeffer.
Susan Cumins, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Period Needlework in America, 1739-1865,' 1978; traveling exhibition circulated 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 Scoll, Stevenson; Washington College, Chestertown.
Susan Cumins, Baltimore Museum of Art, Period Needlework in America, 1979-1878, Baltimore Museum of Art, cat. #14.
Inscribed: None.
