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Accessories
Accessories Archives Boston Silk Memorial Picture |
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Accessories
Accessories Archives Boston Silk Memorial Picture |
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This memorial is for Harriot Farrar of Boston, who died at age 10 in 1810. Her father, James Farrar, was a partner in French & Farrar, which was a wharf in Boston on Fish Street. And the business? Selling fish, of course!
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It measures 18 1/4" by 21" overall. The frame is period but not original. The piece has been backed with acid free and is properly spaced away from the glass.
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The needlework is based on Angelika Kauffman's famous painting of "Fame Decorating Shakespeare's Tomb" (c. 1772). This work (illustrated below) was a prototype for many memorial works produced by young women in schools both in the United States and in England.
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$2350.00 sold
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