Caroline Winn Memorial Mourning Picture; Susan Winn; ca. 1816
date: label: date made
content: ca 1816
label: associated dates
content: 1938
name: label: maker
content: Winn, Susan
notes: label: Description
content: A mourning picture embroidered by Susan Winn, about 1816, in Lititz, PA, and dedicated to her sister, Caroline, who died in 1806 as an infant. The circular embroidered picture is surrounded by a band of couched chenille decorated with gold spangles. It shows a woman, two girls, and a boy gathered around a cloth-draped urn on which is printed "rests in Peace." The woman and girls wear necklaces with pendants or plaques; the one worn by the girl on the right is lettered "SW." The boy holds a book on which is printed "Ble--ed are the Dead that die in the L---." Printed in blue ink on the front of the plinth is "Sacred to the Memory / of my dear Sister / CAROLINE WINN. / Sweet be Thy sepulchral rest / Sister dear! supremely blest! / May the ties which us unite / Be renew'd in realms of light! / Erected by Susan Winn." In a gilded wood frame, it measures 25" x 25", and its black mat is reverse-painted on the glass. The ground is twill-weave ivory silk, and the stitches are satin, long and short, stem, and couching.
label: Description
content: Susan was born October 18, 1801, to John and Susanna Winn in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was a flour merchant and entered Susan and Elizabeth in the Moravian boarding school, Linden Hall Seminary, in Lititz, Pennsylvania in 1815. Susan married John Reynolds on December 23, 1824.
label: Description
content: Mourning designs appear in many 19th-century decorative arts, including needlework. Embroidered landscapes, usually worked by schoolgirls, often show relatives or friends grieving before a monument dedicated to a lost loved one. For more about this embroidery and other schoolgirl needlework, see <i>Girlhood Embroidery, American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework</i> by Betty Ring (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) and <i>The "Ornamental Branches," Needlework and Arts from the Lititz Moravian Girls' School Between 1800 and 1865</i> by Patricia T. Herr (Lancaster, PA: The Heritage Center Museum of Lancaster County, 1996).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Lititz
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Art
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content: Embroidered Pictures
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content: Textiles
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Dillmont, Thérèse de. Assisi Embroideries
label: Related Publication
content: Lubar, Steven, and Kathleen M. Kendrick. Legacies: Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian
label: Related Publication
content: Ring, Betty. Girlhood Embroidery, American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework
label: Related Publication
content: Herr , Patricia T.. "The Ornamental Branches," Needlework and Arts from the Lititz Moravian Girls' School Between 1800 and 1865
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Albert Adsit Clemons
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T08266
label: catalog number
content: T08266
label: accession number
content: 148588
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidered picture
label: Other Terms
content: embroidered picture; Circa 1815; Memorial to Carolyn Winn
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, gilded (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (mat material)
label: Physical Description
content: chenille (threads material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold spangles (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue-green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: browns (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: grey-green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: satin, long and short, stem and couching stitches used (joint piece production method or technique)
label: Physical Description
content: gilded wood with rope turning (frame production method or technique)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (thread material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 25 1/4 in x 25 1/4 in; 64.135 cm x 64.135 cm