$149,000
Fishing Lady School Canvaswork Picture, Boston, mid-18th century, wool and silk threads on linen canvas with mica fragments; depicting a pastoral scene with a tall shepherdess at center wearing a pink striped dress with a tiny black shoe peeking out from her hem, standing before a leafy tree and surrounded by several animals including sheep, rabbits, dogs, pigs, a cow, a leaping stag, birds, and squirrels, in the distance is a blue house with mica windows, a pond in the l.l. corner is stitched with three swimming geese, the landscape dotted with flower blossoms and strawberries, stitched initials "SC;" 11 x 17 in., in original molded wood frame. Provenance: A Massachusetts historical society. Literature: A similar needlework picture is illustrated and discussed in Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850, by Betty Ring, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1993, Vol. l, p. 50.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-06-04
