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Still Life of a Bowl of Fruit
Public Domain

Esther Abbott and Mary Balch's Academy

Still Life of a Bowl of Fruit

1799

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Still Life of a Bowl of Fruit

1799

Physical Qualities Silk ground, silk embroidery threads, bast fiber canvas backing, original eglomisé mat and gilded frame, Framed (Original): 9 1/4 × 10 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (23.5 × 27 × 4.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Francis White, from the Collection of Mrs. Miles White, Jr.
Object Number 1973.76.322
Needlework still life picture of a bowl of fruit, berries, and leaves embroidered in satin stitches in shades of beige, gold, green, blue, coral and black silk thread on a white silk satin woven ground "with additional twill or herringbone-like weave creating a delicate axial striped pattern" (conservation report TCW). Beneath the bowl are the initials EA worked in black threads surrounded by an embroidered foliated gold scrolls. The embroidery has a strip of bast fiber canvas secured to the lower edge. This was originally tacked diredtly to a wooden shingle. (See Conservation report TCW). The needlework is housed in its original gesso and gilded wooden frame ornamented with a row of beading and a black églomisé glass mat.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1973; Nancy Brewster (Mrs. Frances White) by inheritance; Virginia Purviance Bonsal (Mrs. Miles White, Jr.).
Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Lessons Learned: American Schoolgirl Embroideries," November 23, 2014-May 10, 2015.

Anita Jones, BMA, 'The Accomplished Stitch: American Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection, May 11 - July 20, 1997, Checklist
no. 14.

BMA, 'The White Collection,' March 19 - June 2, 1974, no catalogue.
Betty Ring, "Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850", New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, Vol. I, p. 184, fig. 210.

Inscribed: Embroidered at center bottom: 'EA'

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