Lot 64
64
A LINEN AND SILK NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

Details
A LINEN AND SILK NEEDLEWORK PICTURE
BY NANCY PLATT, BURLINGTON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, DATED 1804

The upper register depicting a house on a hill beside a grove of poplars with two classically attired maidens, above the inscription "Nancy Platt's Work, 1804," within a register with a three-story dwelling flanked by weeping willows over a panel with a woman seated on a horse, on a lawn with a dog and a cow and trees, within a double sawtooth border (some fading and losses, restoration to applied head and shoulders of women)--17 1/4 x 17 1/4in.
Literature
Ethel Stanton Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe, American Samplers
(New York: 1973), p. 209, illustrated plate LIX

Lot Essay

This piece belongs to a related group of needlework pictures made in the early 19th century in Burlington County, New Jersey. They each feature a central three-story house with double doors and chimneys enclosed by fencing, within a poplar tree grove; they also include a lady on a horse on a lawn usually with a cow and a dog. For an example, see Betty Ring, American Needlework Treasures (New York: 1987), p. 34, fig. 55.