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Embroidered picture: The Washington Family
Embroidered picture: The Washington Family

Embroidered picture: The Washington Family

Edward Savage (American, 1761–1817)
About 1810
Object PlaceMA, USA
Medium/TechniqueSilk with silk and metal thread embroidery and pigment and wood frame with reverse painted glass
Dimensionsheight x width x depth (with frame): 63.3 x 78.6 x 5.2 cm (24 15/16 x 30 15/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Nancy Thayer Batchelder
Accession number1996.232
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceWorked by a member of the Thayer Family after a print engraved by Edward Savage (1761-1817) and published by Savage and Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, London, in 1798, after a painting of the same scene by Savage, executed between 1789 and 1796, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.