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Mourning Picture

Artist Miss Harriet Moore 1802 - 1878
Dateca. 1819
Terms
  • Paintings
  • Ink
  • Watercolors
  • Silk Fiber
  • Concord (Massachusetts)
Dimensions53.5 x 63.5 x 4.5 cm (21 1/16 x 25 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit LineMourning picture by Harriet Moore, Concord, MA, about 1819. Concord Museum Collection; Pi902.
Object numberPi902
DescriptionWatercolor and pen on silk (Theorem painting on silk done by his sister Harriet Moore). Mourning picture; disconsolate lady beneath a willow, weeping over an urn: "Sacred/ to the memory of/ Daniel G. Moore/ who died June 20, 1819/ aged 15 years." Green and blues predominate. In a gilt frame with geometric design on inner lip.
Collections
  • Artworks
Mourning Theorem
Object number: Pi1001
1828
Samplers
Object number: T1200
Mary Ann Barry
1812
Mourning Picture Sampler
Object number: T1100
1805-1810
Mourning picture dedicated to John Ball Brown
Object number: T701
Mary D. Brown
ca. 1803
Object number: 2007.4.5
Susan Dakin
1830-1877
Object number: PI1012
N. Currier
1800s
Object number: D1104
John H. Moore
December 16, 1911
Mourning sampler by Charlotte Julien
Object number: T1400
Charlotte Julien
Early 1800s
Samplers
Object number: 2007.274
Sophia Wheeler
1828