Mourning picture
Cooper Hewitt

Mourning picture

Unknown · ca. 1800

Medium: silk, paper Technique: embroidered with painted details
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Mourning picture depicts a woman in an Empire-style gown standing alongside a tomb, willow trees on both sides and an angel above. Face and arms of the woman, clouds and angel are painted on the silk ground. Tombstone worked in silk with paper inserts embroidered with silk thread.

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