Lot 515
  • 515

Rare Embroidered and Painted Silk Picture: Summer, Eliza Ingraham, Rowson and Haswell's Academy, Newton, Massachusetts, circa 1800

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Height 14 in. by width 13 1/2 in.
Worked in silk and paint on silk; inscribed in the original eglomise mat: Summer; wrought by Eliza Ingraham at Rowson and Haswell's Academy, Newton.

Exhibited

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p. 64, fig. 102)

Condition

Some minor discoloration; frame not original.
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