Lot 527
  • 527

Rare Embroidered and Painted Silk Mourning Picture: In Memory of Mrs. Lydia Austin, Sally Austin, Saunders and Beach Academy, Dorchester, Massachusetts, circa 1805

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • silk
  • height 16 in. by width 12 in.
  • circa 1805
Worked in silk threads and painted on a silk ground; inscribed on the glass and embroidered on the sarcophagus.

Provenance

Ginsburg & Levy, Inc., New York, April 10, 1968

Exhibited

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art  (p. 71, fig. 118)

Condition


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Catalogue Note

Sally Austin was the daughter of Boston baker Joseph Austin and Lydia Bowles who lived on the north east corner of Fleet and Ship streets. Her sister Lydia B. Austin (c. 1782- 1824) also attended the Saunders and Beach Academy and worked an embroidery, which is now at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. D.C.