RARE CANVASWORK PICTURE WITH A RED HOUSE, COOKE AND BAKER FAMILIES, RHODE ISLAND, CIRCA 1760

worked in wool and metallic threads on linen; typed paper label on the back states, 18th century embroidery of a house in Providence—from the Cooke family and from the Baker family of Rehobeth, Massachusetts.

Amy Finkel, M. Finkel and Daughter, Philadelphia

Appears to be in very good condition, with some minor loss to lower left; in the original frame and wood backing (acid free paper board protecting canvaswork).
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A family notation that descended with this piece indicates that it was worked in Providence, Rhode Island within the Cooke and Baker families of Rehoboth, Massachusetts.  Indeed, records in The Rhode Island Historical Society indicate that John Baker was born in England in 1633 and by 1654 was in Woburn, Massachusetts having come to America as part of the Great Migration during the 1630s and 1640s, when more than 13,000 people came to the colony of Massachusetts from England.  The Baker family settled in Rehoboth and then Rhode Island by the early 18th century.

Genealogical information on the families will accompany this lot.