AMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY | SILKWORK EMBROIDERED AND PAINTED MOURNING PICTURE: MRS. SARAH J. TILLINGHAST OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
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January 25, 06:44 PM GMT
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5,000 - 8,000 USD
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AMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
SILKWORK EMBROIDERED AND PAINTED MOURNING PICTURE: MRS. SARAH J. TILLINGHAST OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
watercolor on silk with wool and silk embroidered threads
circa 1820
20 ¾ by 26 ¼ in.
the tombed inscribed Consecrated to the remains of Mrs. Sarah Tillinghast who was born August 6th, 1791 and departed this life February 5th 1820. In the 29th year of her age. The lower register with a memorial verse Blest Son of Gem: we gladly hail the light That shines from thee o'er Death's uncertain night Whose heavenly seams dispel the cheerless gloom, And gild with joy the darkness of the tomb. in original frame with eglomise glass.
Skinner Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, American Furniture & Decorative Arts, November 8, 2009, sale 2482B, lot 57.
Maine Antique Digest, January 2010, p. 34-A
Sarah Julia (Seamans) Tillinghast (1791-1820) was born in Providence, Rhode Island and married Jeremiah Tillinghast in 1810. The couple had two daughters, Mary Frances Tillinghast Leveck and Sarah Julia Tillinghast Talbot. The entire family sadly died young, with her husband passing only ten years after her in 1831 at the age of forty-eight, and both daughters dying in 1838 and 1839 before the age of thirty.