Rare Embroidered and Painted Silk Mourning Picture, Fanny Moore, Miss Patten's School, Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1807

Worked in silk, chenille, paint and ink on silk; inscribed on the glass.

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art  (p. 87, fig. 139)

orignal frame and glass; split along ladies' bodices; crack in #2 lady face
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The glass decoration suggests that this was framed in Hartford by Stephen Spencer and Elisha Smith, who began working there in 1806 and were joined by Eli Gilman in 1808 (see ANTIQUES, May 1981, p. 1192). Fanny Moore (1790-1876) was second among the eight children of Roger Moore (1751-1838)  and Rosetta Hayes of Granby, Connecticut. Around the monument are Fanny, her parents, brother Homer (1787-1811), sister Harriet (1792-1839), sister Rosetta Maria (1804-1861), and brother Roger Sherman (b. 1806).  Fanny married Joseph Morton Forward (1785-1860), and they had six children.