Standing Mother with Children, Possibly “Charity”
1779-1819
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Standing Mother with Children, Possibly “Charity”
1779-1819
Physical Qualities
Silk ground, silk embroidery threads, watercolor, 13 1/16 x 11 1/2 in. (33.2 x 29.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number
2012.451
A silk on silk embroidery depicting a young woman dressed in a lt gold gown, blue, and white cap with veil holding an infant in her arms with another small child standing on the ground beside her. The faces, hair, and hands of the woman and children are drawn and painted in as is the sky in the background. Both children are in off-white gowns; the older child is wearng red shoes. The foreground consists of a variegated, but flat ground. In the background on the left are several persons working within a fenced in area with a horse. Several sparcely worked trees are also depicted, one of which appears to be falling. A strange amoebal-shaped tree worked in green threads is found on the right in the background. The picture is worked in silk and silk chenille threads of various colors including off-white, lt. blue, lt. gold, dark brown, medium and lt. golden brown, dark blue-green, olive green, lt. green, lt yellow-green, white or lt beige, lt gold, and rose-red. Garments are worked in long and short with stem or split stitch outlines.The trees to the left are worked in feather stitch and that on the right in a buillion stitch. The picture is framed in a black eglomisé glass mat with a single gold strip around the oval opening. The neoclassical style frame is of wood covered in gesso and gilt with beading around the inside border.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2012; Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Baltimore
Hackenbroch, Yvonne, English and other Needlework Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1960, p. lxxvii, illus. In. Figure 101.
Inscribed: Handwritten on reverse of paper covering back of frame: "BR" (probably indicating the Miss Scott's Bedroom on the bottom right side of the larger case furniture piece in the corner, where this piece was found after her death)
