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American, Likely Massachusetts Bay Colony

Canvas-work picture, mid 1700s

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

American

Title

Canvas-work picture

Year

mid 1700s

Medium

Linen plain-weave ground with wool and silk embroidery (tent stitch)

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • wool,
  • linen,
  • silk

Techniques

  • embroidery,
  • embroidering,
  • embroidered,
  • tent stitch

Dimensions

Length: 60.3 cm (23 3/4 inches)

Place

Likely Massachusetts Bay Colony

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf

Object Number

23.075

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selected Works

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

A World of Costume and Textiles

A Handbook of the Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

These Golden Arts

June 18 - August 14, 1993

A World of Costume and Textiles

September 22 - November 12, 1989

Needlework

February 19 - April 25, 1982

European Galleries

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Canvas-work picture with the accession number of 23.075. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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