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front Phelps mourning embroidery
1804
1990.016
The weeping willows and funerary urns Martha "Patty" Phelps painstakingly stitched in this silk-on-silk embroidery recording the deaths of her mother and brother were traditional symbols of mourning in 19th-century America.
front Embroidery of Mount Vernon
c. 1807
1893.07.21
Caroline Stebbins simultaneously displayed her patriotism, refinement, and embroidery skills in this silk on silk embroidery of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon, Virginia.

 

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