Fine and Rare Embroidered and Painted Silk Mourning Picture, Hannah Clapp, Massachusetts, dated 1809

Elegantly worked in silk stitches and chenille on a silk ground; inscribed on paper beneath the needlework, Hannah Clapp, AET. 12 1809; glass replaced.  Height 22 1/2  in. by width 20 1/4  in.

Ruth Troiani, Pound Ridge, New York, Summer, 1977.

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p. 69, fig. 113)

overall very good condition; tiny spots of foxing extreme right border; frame and glass not original.
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Hannah Clapp was the daughter of Boston carpenter James Clapp (1770-1827) and Nancy Hassell (1761-1819). She married Daniel S. Harrington (c. 1796-1826) of Lexington in April 1821, and Luther Brooks (1800-1839) of East Cambridge on June 1, 1830.