RARE SILK EMBROIDERED MOURNING PICTURE FOR GEORGE WASHINGTON, ANONYMOUS, ATTRIBUTED TO LYDIA ROYCE'S SCHOOL, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1800

worked in silk stitches on a silk ground.

Ruth Troiani Beautiful Antiques, Pound Ridge, New York, November 1979

Seattle, Washington, The Seattle Art Museum, American Sampler, May 18, 2002 – May 16, 2004

Some fading to silk ground; some fading and loss of silk stitches; Three repairs u.r. within oval reserve. The frame and eglomise mat appear to be original, the frame regilded.
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For comparison, see Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery, Volume I, p. 213, fig. 248 for an example worked by Christian Williams Salter.