Wool on Linen Needlework Picture Marblehead, Massachusetts, mid-18th century worked in tent stitch to depict pastoral courtship scene, laid over hand-planed backboard and mounted in glazed period frame, framed 11 7/8 x 12 5/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance American Furniture & Decorative Arts, Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts, 12 August 2012, Lot 1091. This lot is accompanied by a card from Mrs. Malcolm Lawrie Bell* stating that the picture descended in the family of Mr. Charles Eustis, Septon of the First Church of Christ, Marblehead, from 1880 until 1922. *Elizabeth Coffin Webb Bell (1895-1994), Marblehead, Massachusetts. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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