Rare Embroidered and Painted Silk Mourning Picture, Susan Creamer, St. Joseph's Academy, Emmitsburg, Maryland, circa 1827

Worked in silk threads and chenille on a painted pen and ink silk ground; inscribed on the monument.

Mrs. Charles A. Perlitz, 1968

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p. 102, fig. 167)

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Like many memorials worked at Saint Joseph's Academy in the 1820s, Susan Creamer's embroidery has a painted background depicting Mount Saint Mary's College for Catholic men on the hillside
at left, and on the right, the academy's first buildings: Saint Joseph's House of 1810, and Dubois Hall of 1826.