Lot 529
  • 529

Rare Embroidered and Paint Silk Mourning Picture: Polly Marston, Barnstable, Massachusetts, circa 1806

Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Height 12 1/4 in. by width 14 3/4 in.
worked in silk threads and paint on silk; inscribed on the glass; wrought By Polly Marston

Provenance

The Channing Hare Collection, a sale at Sotheby's, december 11, 1970, sale number 3134, lot 43.

Exhibited

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p. 65, fig. 104)

Condition

Original frame and glass mat; overall very good condition; retains Cermenati & Monfrino framer's label on the backing.
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Catalogue Note

Polly Marston (b. 1790) was the daughter of Winslow Marston (1764-1857) and Elizabeth Blish (1765-1837) of Barnstable.  She married Luther Hinkley. The frame bears the label of Cermenati & Monfrino.

Mary (Polly) Marston (1790-1830) was one of five children and a descendant of Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow (her great-great-great grandfather) and Henry III of England.  She married in 1812, as his first wife, Luther Hinkley (1789-1883) of Barnstable.  They had no children.  He had three children with his second wife Minerva Baxter, who he married in 1831.  A son Frederick born in 1832, a daughter Mary Marston, named for his first wife, in 1834, and a daughter Minerva, named for the present wife in 1835.  He married third Thankful Leonard and they had two children.

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