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Antique watercolor memorial to Mary Lothrop, Cohasset, Massachusetts c.1832
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Watercolor on silk memorial by Betsy Coolidge dated 1823
Portland, Maine
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Silk embroidered memorial by Adeline A. Greenleaf, Boston, MA c. 1810
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Betty Holman Massachusetts silk embroidered memorial c. 1800
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Eliza Sprague Stearns c. 1808 Boston, MA silk embroidered memorial
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Silk embroidered memorial dated 1819 stitched by Eliza Emerson, Salem, Massachusetts
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Sophia Barney wrought this Massachusetts silk embroidered memorial c.1810
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Silk embroidered memorial to Greenawalt from Chambersburg, PA
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Matilda Chadwick silk embroidered memorial, Duxbury, Massachusetts
1826
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Silk Embroidered Memorial to: Mrs. Hannah Richardson, and John Gilson
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Mary Gould Memorial, Massachusetts c. 1810 Sold
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Charlotte Koon Memorial, York, PA, dated 1821
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Balch School Memorial to John G. & John A. Hillhouse, Providence,
RI c. 1806.
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Smith / Peirce Watercolor Memorial Waltham, MA c.1836
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Silk embroidered memorial by Mary Ann Brown, Providence, RI c. 1815
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Memorials: Although memorials were usually a form of "silk
embroidered pictures" they deserve a category to themselves. A memorial needlework picture was one of the
expected accomplishments of a young cultured girl c1780 to c1840. These typically show a tomb, mourning figures,
and weeping willow trees. They are beautiful, sensitive, and graceful works of needlework art that are highly sought
after by the top collectors of antique samplers and needlework. Contrary to popular belief the stitchers of these
memorials were not necessarily in mourning over the loss of a loved one but merely creating a popular form of needlework.
If they had no one close enough to them to memorialize they may dedicate it to a well known figure that had died
or inscribe the tomb "sacred to friendship" or simply leave it blank.
STEPHEN & CAROL HUBER
(860) 388-6809
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