Embroidery

Artist Sarah Elizabeth Parks Wheeler

DateLate 1800s

Terms

Embroidery
Felt
Silk Fiber

Dimensions162.56 × 96.52 cm (64 × 38 in.)

Credit LineEmbroidered Portiere by Sarah Elizabeth Parks Wheeler, Concord, MA, 1870-1899. Concord Museum Collection, Gift of Miss Julia D. Wheeler; T2420.

Object numberT2420

DescriptionBrown felt. Embroidered in silk in natural colors of flowers, etc. Three clumps of Golden Rod, Eye Brights and Brown Daisies were stamped, the rest free-hand. Wild rose, steeple bush, evening primrose, live-for-ever, meadow beauty (Phexia), arrow-head, milk weed, everlasting, water lilies, fringed gentian, bottle gentian, turtle head, arethusa, jack-in-the-pulpit, pitcher plant, chicory, pickerel plant, button bush, butter-and-eggs, five finger fern, walking fern, fire weed, Indian pipe, Scotch hair bell, pussy willows, witch hazel, ivy. 2 yds 12" x 26".

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