RARE SILK EMBROIDERED PICTURE, ELECTA HALE (1783-1840) OF GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT, SARAH PIERCE'S LITCHFIELD ACADEMY, LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT, DATED 1798

worked in silk stitches and chenille on a painted silk ground, with a house to the right with trees and fence in a round border of flowers.

Amy Finkel, M. Finkel and Daughter, Philadelphia.

With genealogy. Some stain, discoloration, and fading, with repair at center.
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Another silk embroidered picture worked by Nancy Hale of Glastonbury, Connecticut, at Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Academy, depicting the Cottage Girl is illustrated in Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery, Volume I, p. 220, fig. 254.

Genealogical information will accompany this lot.