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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:European
Title:Embroidered Picture
Date Made:n.d.
Type:Textile
Materials:silk with water base paint, embroidered with silk threads in cross and tent stitch
Place Made:Europe
Measurements:oval: 12 in.; 30.48 cm
Accession Number:  SC 1968.30.173
Credit Line:Gift of Caroline Roberta Wing, class of 1896
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
woman seated with head in hands in landscape under a tree; woman; outdoor; death/mourning

Label Text:
This seated woman with a small dog at her feet was copied after a painting by Angelica Kauffman of Maria (1777), a character from Laurence Sterne’s novel A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768). Maria, who is shown mourning for her late husband, came to personify female melancholy and grief in the late eighteenth century. The image of the grief-stricken Maria was copied and reproduced in many forms, from prints to pottery and embroidery.

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