Chair seats with couple in a landscape

Embroidered by: Rooksby Creese (American, born in Boston, 1703)

American

Colonial

second quarter 18th century

Object Place: United States

Medium/Technique Wool and silk threads embroidered on linen ground with a fashionable couple seated in a landscape

Dimensions 55.9 x 67.9 cm (22 x 26.75 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Miss Lois Lilley Howe

Accession Number41.770

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsTextiles

ProvenanceRooksby Creese through family to Lily Lois Howe; gift to the MFA, November 13, 1941.