Sitting, stitching in a mournful muse

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Collection Type

Date

1874-07-01

GUSN

GUSN-188181

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Ephemera collection
Pamphlets
Temporary
Marblehead, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July, 1874
Sitting, stitching in a mournful muse
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Pamphlets
  - Temporary
    - Marblehead, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July, 1874
      - Sitting, stitching in a mournful muse (current record)

Description

An engraved illustration of a young woman seated at a window. She is working on shoes and looking out the window toward a lighthouse.

Details

Descriptive Terms

women (female humans)
youth
windows
sewing (visual works)
engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)

Physical Description

1 engraving

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.07.TMP.002.001

Places

Marblehead (Essex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 93

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Component

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