Lot Details
Lot 387
Watercolor and Silk-on-Silk Needlework Pictorial of Palemon and Lavinia
Worked by Lucy Winston, possibly Hartford Connecticut circa 1805
Height 16 1/8 inches, width 22 1/8 inches.
Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, 24 October 1993, Lot 29
Stephen & Carol Huber, 1993
Kay Ivey in In the Neatest Manner, The Making of the Virginia Sampler Tradition, notes the parable of Palemon and Lavinia became a popular theme for needlework in the early nineteenth century. The story was an updated and romanticized version of the Biblical story of Ruth and Boaz told by James Thomson (1700-1748) in a passage titled "Autum" of his poem The Seasons, which was published in Philadelphia in 1803.
C Property from the Estate of a Private Collector
Additional Notes & Condition Report
frame rubbed, scratched, losses
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