Print Work Mourning Embroidery Dedicated to Major Green
1799
Physical Qualities
Silk embroidery threads, paint, graphite, on silk ground with bast fiber canvas backing, Framed (Original): 14 3/8 × 12 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (36.5 × 31.4 × 3.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Donald Houghton Hooker, Baltimore, in Memory of her Mother, Mrs. James D. Harrison
Object Number
1985.111
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1985; Mrs. Donald Houghton Hooker, Baltimore, MD.
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.
Witty, Merrill. "In Loving Memory," Mid-Atlantic Country, July 1991, p. 42, illus. (Identified incorrectly as Hicks memorial.)
Inscribed: Drawn on urn atop tomb in script letters: "T. G." Drawn on front face of plinth part of tomb in block letters upper and lower case: "Majr. Green /obit 2 Feb/ 1797."
