Embroidered Chair Back, 1755–65, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Linen embroidered with wool and silk

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Embroidered Chair Back, 1755–65, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Linen embroidered with wool and silk threads, 32 x 25 in. ( x cm), Textiles, Mehitable Starkey (born 1739), This piece of needlework is a panel made in Boston about 1760 by Mehitable Starkey and passed down in her family until purchase at auction by Ann and Philip Holzer. Unlike most Boston needlework pictures, which tend to be horizontal in composition, this piece is a tall vertical panel, with two discrete scenes placed one above the other: the top scene shows three people harvesting grain; a woman at the center holds a sickle aloft, while a man at her right cuts the wheat and a man at her left bundles it

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Size: 3836px × 4838px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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