Rare Embroidered and Painted Silk Mourning Picture: Rest in Peace, Anonymous, Philadelphia, circa 1813

Worked in silk and paint on silk; in the original frame with label of Philadlephia frame-maker, John DeLany.

Leon Stark, Philadelphia, October 9, 1966.

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p. 99, fig. 159)

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Pattern and painting attributed to Samuel Folwell, with plinth inscribed Rest in Peace. This retains the only known label of its framer, John Delany.