$4,444
"MARY LAMSON" Silk Needlework Mourning Picture, Beverly, Massachusetts, c. 1803, stitched with silk threads on a silk ground with watercolor, gouache, and ink details, depicting a woman walking with flowers to a large urn-topped monument, with an overhanging weeping willow in a tree-lined landscape with a pool of water in the foreground, the monument inscribed "IN MEMORY OF Jervis Lamsom AE 6 Yrs:& 5 mo./1803/Blest are the dead whose Souls are pure, Their Suffrings past their Glory sure.," (minor thead displacement), 19 x 14 3/4 in., mounted under an eglomise mat inscribed "MARY LAMSON" in gilt, and in a period molded giltwood frame. Note: Mary Lansom was the sixth of eleven children born to Nathaniel (1751-1816) and Jane (Gage) Lamson (1761-1809), of Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. Mary was born on March 29, 1792. Her younger brother Jervis was born on February 28, 1797, and died August 22, 1803. Interestingly, Mary's three youngest siblings were triplets. Mary died December 14, 1843. A note affixed to the backboard is inscribed "From Mrs. Henry Endicott/Boston."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-08-12
