Americana, Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export and Prints
Americana, Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export and Prints
Property from the Estate of Martin Shack
Fine Silk-Embroidered Mourning Picture: Sacred to the Memory of Cornelius Dunham, Boston, Massachusetts, Circa 1796
Lot Closed
January 24, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Martin Shack
Fine Silk-Silk Embroidered Mourning Picture: to the Sacred Memory of Cornelius Dunham
Boston, Massachusetts
Circa 1796
Housed in a period gilt and ebonized wood frame with Boston label on verso backboard, the scene depicting a mother with a young girl and three boys at the tomb inscribed Sacred To the Memory of Cornelius Dunham Who Died Nov. 7, 1796 AE 47 under a weeping willow with an American barque in the background.
Height 20 1/4 in. by Width 20 1/4 in.
When Cornelius Dunham III was born on 1 August 1780, in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Captain Cornelius Dunham II, was 31 and his mother, Lydia Atwood, was 26. He died on 7 November 1796, in his hometown, at the age of 16, and was buried in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.