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Lozenge format; coat of arms of the Cabot and Fitch families; the mantling is worked with silk and metallic threads and glass beads; the silk is in shades of red, yellow, ochre, green, pale blue and black; the embroidery has been cut from the original black silk ground and appliqued to a new black, satin weave silk ground; mounted in a crossetted corner mahogany veneer frame with carved gilt lip and outer edge.
coats of arms
embroidery (visual works)
silk (textile)
thread
appliqué (technique)
embroidery (visual works)
heraldry
Silk
Picture, Needlework
There are two jelly labels on the verso frame: 1-This was hung out at the death of Mary, first wife of Francis Cabot and 2- It was put in good order by Cousin Anna Lowell before acquired by F.L.B., about 1935./written by/F.L.B., 1958
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Attributed to Cabot, Mary, 1749-1771 (Embroiderer)
Boston, Massachusetts
22 1/2 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.879
Massachusetts (United States)
Probably
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