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A SILK-ON-SILK NEEDLEWORK MEMORIAL
NEW YORK, DATED 1793
Worked in cream, blue, brown and green silk threads and brown and green silk chenille depicting a woman in Empire style mourning garb weeping at a garlanded urn monument, inscribed in ink, "In Memory of Mrs. Maria Vossburgh who died August 1793 AE 69 years 9 months," and flanked on either side by funerary arbors--13¼in. high, 18¼in. wide
NEW YORK, DATED 1793
Worked in cream, blue, brown and green silk threads and brown and green silk chenille depicting a woman in Empire style mourning garb weeping at a garlanded urn monument, inscribed in ink, "In Memory of Mrs. Maria Vossburgh who died August 1793 AE 69 years 9 months," and flanked on either side by funerary arbors--13¼in. high, 18¼in. wide