Chair seats with couple in a landscape
Rooksby Creese
(American, born in Boston, 1703)
second quarter 18th century
Object PlaceUnited States
Medium/TechniqueWool and silk threads embroidered on linen ground with a fashionable couple seated in a landscape
Dimensions55.9 x 67.9 cm (22 x 26.75 in.)
Credit LineGift of Miss Lois Lilley Howe
Accession number41.770
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ProvenanceRooksby Creese through family to Lily Lois Howe; gift to the MFA, November 13, 1941.
second half of 18th century
early 18th century
Late 19th century
late 19th century
last quarter 18th century
1675–1725
Early 19th century
1600–50
19th century