Needlework Picture
MakerMade by
Sally Strong
American, 1788 - 1871
Dateabout 1800
DimensionsFrame (height x width): 20 1/4 x 20 1/2in. (51.4 x 52.1cm)
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
Description[A silk on silk pictorial needlework in a partially finished state showing the under drawing in pencil and changes to the composition of figures in a landscape. The original design appears to have shown three female figures with sheep to the left and a young woman and young man to the right in front of a building. The changes to the design place trees to the left, over one figure's face, a change to the stance of the woman in the center and the addition of a classical soldier with feathered cap to the right in front of the building. The scene is set within a circular center with plain white silk exposed in the corners. Some evidence of stitching that has been pulled out is visible in the corners.]
Object number2011.186.0
InscribedHandwritten in black ink on a paper label adhered to the back of the frame: "This work was done by my Great Grandmother / Sally Strong Richardson / about 125 years ago. She was mother of Olive Richardson Gardner / now living. / Loaned by / Mabel I. Dimock."; handwritten in pencil in a different hand on the same label: "August 1912". On View
Not on view
