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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Needlework - "Autumn"
Object Number
1986-10-0
Description
Frame: gilt incised quarter round with plain concave with beaded/twisted thin wood strip, different on sides than top and bottom, inner lining. Black eglomise glass with floral corners, "SALLY PHELPS" at bottom. Gilt oval double bands around picture. Wood backing with remnants of pictures framers label "Ruggles & Dunbar". Needlework picture entitled "AUTUMN" from English print of same name. Left man sitting on basket, women with basket of apples, empire dress and hat, boy on ground and young man on ladder picking apples. Baskets in foreground and large apple tree to right. Small tree center and house to left. Brilliant colored silks.
Comment
Sarah Phelps Riley was born on July 4, 1787 to John and Sally Shethar Phelps of Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1800 Sarah received a formal education in her hometown at Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy. Several years later she married John C. Riley on December 6, 1844. Sarah passed away in 1870.
Category
Date Made
1800
Dimensions
23" long x 19 1/4" wide x 1 1/2" deep
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