Printwork Mourning Embroidery “IN MEMORY of A Tender and Beloved FATHER”
1799
Physical Qualities
Silk ground, silk embroidery threads, ink wash, lining, Sight: 15 5/8 × 20 1/8 in. (39.7 × 51.1 cm.); Framed: 23 × 27 1/2 × 2 in. (58.4 × 69.9 × 5.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Susan T. Brown
Object Number
1937.15
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1937; Susan T. Brown.
BMA, 'The White Collection,' March 19 - June 2, 1974. Susan Cumins, BMA, 'Period Needlework in America, 1739-1865,' 1978; cat. # 12; 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, 1739-1865, 1978, cat. #12.
Inscribed: Written in ink and embroidered in black silk thread: "IN MEMORY of/A Tender and Beloved/ FATHER,/Obt./ Sept. 17, 1800. /AE. 24." Written in ink at lower left side at edge of embroidery and picture: "A [?] W O [?] G" These capital letters in ink are difficult to decipher and may be inaccurate as given; however, there are definitely four initials or letters noted.
