Silk Needlework Picture

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Silk Needlework Picture, an allegory, "The Death of Sylvia's Stag. Wrought at Mrs. Saunders and Miss Beach's Academy.," early 19th century, note attached to the back identifies the needleworker as Eliza Adams (Welch) Taggard, solidly stitched silk threads on silk ground, with watercolor features and distant landscape, embroidered verse is worked beneath picture, 24 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. Note: See Ring, Betty, Girlhood Embroidery, vol. 1, p. 94, for information regarding Mrs. Saunders and Miss Beach's Clifton Hall Academy in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where they kept one of New England's most elite boarding and day schools for more than thirty years.
Estimate $3,000-5,000

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