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Hatchment

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1710-1750

GUSN

GUSN-2414

Description

Square form, a coat of arms and shield of three etoiles and three fleur-de-lis under crown and horse (upper body of) enclosed by foliate scrolls painted in white, black, red and gold on red-brown ground. Worked in a diamond-shaped format. Black painted molded frame.

Details

Descriptive Terms

hatchments
linen (material)
oil paint (paint)
pine (wood)
coats of arms
fleur-de-lis (motifs)
heraldry
pine (wood)
Linen
Oil Paint
Pine
Coat-of-Arms
Heraldry
Fleur-de-Lis
Picture

Inscription

In pencil on stretcher: Tyng Family/Woburn, Mass. Typed label on stretcher: Stoddard + Evance/Eliz. wife of Simeon/Stoddard Boston 1712/Crest only unlike mine/Dan'l Stoddard, Boston 1723, same crest/John Evance, London/same fleur-de-lys.

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Bowditch, Harold, Dr. (Maker)
Eaton, Peter (Vendor)

Dimensions

27 1/4 x 26 3/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.437

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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