AMERICAN, dated 1804

A SILK ON SILK NEEDLEWORK MOURNING PICTORIAL

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AMERICAN, dated 1804
A Silk on Silk Needlework Mourning Pictorial
Worked in green, cream, yellow, black, white, and teal silk threads depicting a central classical monument inscribed in ink, "A daughter's tribute, in memory of Mrs. THIRZA BLISS, who died May 6, 1804, Aged 34.//Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here." surrounded by mourners and weeping trees, all set in pastoral landscape and embellished with mica chips
19in. sight

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Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America.

拍品专文

Thirza McCall of Wilbraham, Massachusetts married Ichabod Bliss of Brimfield on October 5, 1794. She died in Brimfield on May 6, 1804, at the age of 34, quite possibly from complications of pregnancy or childbirth. Their children were Lucy (b. 1795, m. 1816), Eunice (b. 1800, m. 1815), Thirza Williams (b. 1798, m. 1818), Ruth (b. 1802, m. 1822). Her husband remarried the following year and had 7 more children. Lucy, Eunice, Thirza and Ruth were aged 9, 6, 4, and 2 respectively at their mother's death, but are here portrayed, in fashionable attire, mourning with their father at the ages they would have been when the embroidery was stitched, probably by Lucy or Eunice.