Print Work Mourning Embroidery Dedicated to Henry Hicks
1801
Physical Qualities
Silk ground, silk embroidery threads, watercolor and ink, cotton backing with linen edging, 17 1/8 x 21 3/4 in. (43.5 X 55.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object Number
1973.27
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1973; Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth.
William Voss Elder III, BMA, "American Folk Art From the Museum and Local Collections", April 4-June 18, 1978, cat. 121, p. 18.
Susan Cumins, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Period Needlework in America 1739-1865,' 1978, cat. 13, illustrated.; traveling exhibition circulated to Annapolis, Elkton, Salisbury, Columbia, Leonardtown, Stevenson, and Chestertown, Maryland.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 'American Folk Art on Paper,' May 22 - July 22, 1984, no catalogue.
Anita Jones, BMA, 'The Accomplished Stitch: American Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection,' 5/11-7/20/1997, no. 20 on printed 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.
Susan Cumins, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Period Needlework in America 1739-1865,' 1978, cat. 13, illustrated.; traveling exhibition circulated to Annapolis, Elkton, Salisbury, Columbia, Leonardtown, Stevenson, and Chestertown, Maryland.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 'American Folk Art on Paper,' May 22 - July 22, 1984, no catalogue.
Anita Jones, BMA, 'The Accomplished Stitch: American Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection,' 5/11-7/20/1997, no. 20 on printed 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.
William Voss Elder III, BMA, "American Folk Art From the Museum and Local Collections", April 4-June 18, 1978, cat. 121, p. 18.
Susan Cumins, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Period Needlework in America 1739-1865,' 1978, cat. 13, illustrated.; traveling exhibition circulated to Annapolis, Elkton, Salisbury, Columbia, Leonardtown, Stevenson, and Chestertown, Maryland.
Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and ink and embroidered on plinth of monument: 'SACRED/ to the Memory of/ Mr HENRY HICKS/ who died on his passage from Guadaloupe/ to Baltimore Dec, 8. 1802 in the/ 25th year of his age./ Ah luckless youth no tomb is placed for thee/ That can to strangers eyes thy worth impart./ Thou hast no grave but in the stormy Sea./ And no memorial but this broken heart.' [Note: there is a comma after Dec and a period after 8 as show above. "Guadeloupe" is misspelled as above.]
