Rare Embroidered and Painted Silk Picture: Peace and Plenty, Sarah Swan, Miss Glover's School, Dorchester, Massachusetts

Worked in silk, chenille, and paint on silk, inscribed on the glass Peace And Plenty, Wought by Sarah Swan at Miss Glover's School, Dorchester, 1819.

Teina Baumstone, New York, March 1972.

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p. 69, fig. 114)

Very good overall condition; retains its original frame and glass.
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Attributed to Sarah Swan (b. 1806), the daughter of William Swan and Sarah Shephard of Dorchester. In 1833 she married bookseller Ebenezer Clapp, Jr., who wrote The History of Dorchester in 1858. No record has been found of a Miss Glover teaching in Dorchester. She may have been Eleanor (b. 1788), a daughter of Samuel Clover and Eleanor Hawes of Stoughton, who attended Day's Academy in Wrentham in 1811, and taught in Stoughton, Mansfield, and Milton. A mourning piece by Elizabeth Clapp also names Miss Clover's
School, Dorchester (privately owned}. (Additional information provided by Carol and Stephen Huber).