Live Auction 18947In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides
A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL OF THE WELCH FAMILY GENEALOGY
Lot 415 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW JERSEY COLLECTION

A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL OF THE WELCH FAMILY GENEALOGY

PROBABLY MAINE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed22 January 2021

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A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL OF THE WELCH FAMILY GENEALOGY
PROBABLY MAINE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
17 x 16 in.

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The Welch family lived in Cape Elizabeth, Maine where genealogic needlework was very popular. This piece is consistent with examples from Maine with its rose-vine border and pictorial scene in the lower half. For similar examples see Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850, Volume I (New York, 1993), pp. 249-251.