Object Number 1959.1873 B

Object Name

Frame

Category

Frames

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Place of Origin

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Date

1740-1760

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Label; on original backboard; "No. 896 / MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS / Boston, Massachusetts / SPECIAL LOAN EXHIBITION / of / NEW ENGLAND EMBROIDERY / One needlework picture / Title Landscape with figures / Artist American, 18th century / Owner Philip Young, Esq. / Address 48 Beacon Street / Boston, Mass."
2. Label; on original backboard; "The large petit-point picture was / purchased by me about 1910 in / Portland, Maine from a Miss / Charlotte Thomas to whose ances- / tors it had always belonged / Signed/ Francis H. Bigelow / June 29, 1925."

Materials

Wood

Dimensions (inches)

23.87 (H) , 44.75 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

60.63 (H) , 113.665 (W)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Swan, Susan Burrows. 1995 Plain and Fancy: American Women and their Needlework, 1650-1850.
• Published: p. 62, 62, fig. 28