A RARE AND IMPORTANT SILK- AND METAL-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL, WROUGHT BY MARY RUSSELL (B. 1779), MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS OR BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND, DATED 1791

A RARE AND IMPORTANT SILK- AND METAL-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK PICTORIAL
WROUGHT BY MARY RUSSELL (B. 1779), MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS OR BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND, DATED 1791
signed and dated Mary Russell workd in the 13th Year 1791 along lower edge
18 ¼ x 21 ¾ in.

Provenance
Mrs. Edward C. Williamson
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 24-25 October 1986, lot 171
American Hurrah Antiques, New York

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW YORK COLLECTION

Literature
Betty Ring, Let Virtue Be a Guide to Thee: Needlework in the Education of Rhode Island Women, 1730-1830 (Providence, 1983), p. 225.
Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers and Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850 (New York, 1993), p. 136 (cited).
Robert Bishop and Jacqueline M. Atkins, Folk Art in American Life (New York, 1995), p. 102.

Exhibited
Providence, The Rhode Island Historical Society, Let Virtue Be a Guide To Thee: Needlework in the Education of Rhode Island Women, 1730-1830, 6 November 1983 - 22 January 1984 (Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, 24 February - 20 May 1984; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 July - 23 September, 1984).