Embroidered Picture
Nancey Wyett Whitney
(American, born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 1797–1888)
early 19th century
Medium/TechniqueSilk plain weave embroidered with silk in couching, knot, satin and split stitches, hand painted with gouache
DimensionsFramed: 20 x 22 in. (50.8 x 55.9 cm)
Unframed: 14 1/2 x 16 in. (36.8 x 40.6 cm)
Unframed: 14 1/2 x 16 in. (36.8 x 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jane Cross in memory of Margaret Cross
Accession number2011.2230
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ProvenanceJune 30, 2011, by inheritance from Margaret Cross to Jane Cross; 2011, year-end gift of Jane Cross to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)
1654
late 19th century
Late 18th or early 19th century
Probably 19th century
16th century
17th–19th century
16th century
16th–19th century
mid 16th–mid 17th century