Embroidered picture: Shepherdess and piper
Mary Fleet
(Massachusetts (Boston), 1729–1796)
about 1745
Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts
Medium/TechniquePlain weave linen embroidered in tent stitch with silk and wool
Dimensions59.7 x 57.2 cm (23 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)
Credit LineOtis Norcross Fund and Anonymous gift
Accession number41.6
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1740–50
mid-18th century
about 1750
18th or first half of the 19th century
AD 1-100
late 17th–early 18th century
16th–19th century
17th–19th century
1805–10
18th century
First half of 18th century