Mourning picture
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Mourning picture depicts a woman in an Empire-style gown standing alongside a tomb, willow trees on both sides and an angel above. Face and arms of the woman, clouds and angel are painted on the silk ground. Tombstone worked in silk with paper inserts embroidered with silk thread.
label: Description
content: Inscription:
label: Description
content: In the memory of Orlando Shaw who died Jan 11th AD 1782 and Cyrus Shaw who died Sept 12 AD 1794 Aged 17
label: Description
content: Man dies to live
label: Description
content: And lives to die no more.
label: Description
content: There is rest in heaven.
place: label: made in
content: USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Marsha Carson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2022-40-6
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Mourning picture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, paper Technique: embroidered with painted details
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (object): 39.4 × 37.1 cm (15 1/2 × 14 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (framed): 47 × 44.5 × 2.9 cm (18 1/2 × 17 1/2 × 1 1/8 in.)