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Embroidered picture: The Kiss Given

Embroidered by: Love Rawlins Pickman (American, 1732–1809)
American
after 1747
Object Place: Salem, Massachusetts

Medium/Technique Silk satin embroidered with silk and metallic thread
Dimensions 41.9 x 57.8 cm (16.5 x 22.75 in.) framed
Credit Line The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.239
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionEmbroidered picture after Jean Baptiste Pater's painting, Le baiser donné. Black silk satin embroidered with silk and metallic yarn; original frame.
ProvenanceLent by Miss Martha C. Codman (later Mrs. Maxim Karolik), May 25, 1921. Transferred to M. & M. Karolik Collection of 18th century American Arts, January 12, 1939.