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Artist
Mary Snelling Atkins
Date1745-1760
Terms
- Samplers
- Canvas
- Wool Fiber
- Boston
- Charlestown
Dimensions48.22 × 54.57 cm (19 × 21 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Louis A. Sohier (1968)
Object numberPi112
DescriptionInventory description: Textile. Colors: green, blue, red, white, shades of brown, burf, yellow. Depicts a girl (damsel, shepard) with a crook at her feet, sleeping, approached by a "rustic swain" (man, suitor). Mansion in background, various animals shown. No border.
Collections
- Needlework
Object number: T100.1
Rebeckah (Rebeckah Wheeler Bulkeley Prescott) Wheeler
1660-1670
Object number: H1612A
Object number: 2023.17.3
Object number: 2023.17.38