Young Man and Woman with Dog
notes: label: Description
content: After a young lady learned to embroider a sampler, she might attend a female academy to make a silk embroidered picture. This was a more challenging technique that became popular in the early 1800s. Subjects included classical, biblical, and historical scenes, as well as mourning pictures.
label: Description
content: This rectangular embroidered picture portrays a young man and woman and a dog in a pastoral scene with a floral wreath border around all the edges. The man and woman are in Regency style clothing. The faces, dark curly hair, arms, and hands are painted, as is the sky background. The floral border is elaborate, with much detail. The glass mat, which has been removed, has a reverse one-inch band painted black with a 1/4" gold band around the edges. In the lower band is the name SOPHIA HARSEN. The ground is ivory sheer cotton fabric, sewn to a silk satin after it was embroidered. The thread is silk floss and chenille and the stitches are laid, straight, and satin
label: Description
content: There is a Sophia Harsen born July 10, 1815, in New York City, New York. Further research is needed to find other silk embroidered pictures of this style worked with a provenance of New York City to substantiate this attribution.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Embroidered Pictures
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Elizabeth G. Cooke estate
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0343.01
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0343.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0343
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidered picture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: chenille (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
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content: silk (thread material)
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content: glass (mat material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 70.739 cm x 50.165 cm; 27 7/8 in x 19 3/4 in