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Embroidered picture: The Washington Family
Copied after: Edward Savage (American, 1761–1817)
American (Massachusetts)
About 1810
Object Place: MA, USA
Medium/Technique
Silk with silk and metal thread embroidery and pigment and wood frame with reverse painted glass
Dimensions
height x width x depth (with frame): 63.3 x 78.6 x 5.2 cm (24 15/16 x 30 15/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Nancy Thayer Batchelder
Accession Number1996.232
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionPictorial embroidery. Silk, chenille and metallic threads embroidered on silk with painted details and background. Framed and glazed; black painted matte. Hand-written inscription of reverse reads: "This picture was about 88[?] years old I wand C.[?]E.T. 2d to have as he is the only Thayer boy at the present time I want to understand his Great Grand Mother worked it." Condition: Fair-good; some fading; flaking of pigment on painted matte.
ProvenanceWorked by a member of the Thayer Family after a print engraved by Edward Savage (1761-1817) and published by Savage and Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, London, in 1798, after a painting of the same scene by Savage, executed between 1789 and 1796, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.