Auction: Sale #2195 - 2195Location: BostonDate / Time: November 02, 2002 11:00AM
Description:
Silk Needlework Memorial Picture, New England, early 19th century, depicting a young woman in mourning leaning against an urn-topped monument inscribed in ink "To the memory of Mrs. Rebecca Bacon, wife of Ebenezer Bacon Esq. & two of their children...," with a church and cemetery in the background and a large weeping willow in the foreground, watercolor painted facial features and sky, in an oval eglomise mat, (light stains, few insignificant tears),17 1/4 x 15 1/2 in., framed.
Provenance: Northeast Auctions.
Estimate $2,000-3,000