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Genre scene embroidered with silk on ivory silk ground with painted background and figures. It depicts a tropical outdoor scene of two white women tending babies with a Black woman and a Black man working to the right. Stitches used: long and short satin, with filling and rice stitches.
needlework (visual works)
silk (fiber)
watercolor (paint)
Picture, Needlework
Used At Harrison Gray Otis House, First House (Boston, Mass.),
23.1929
Lovejoy, Joseph, Mrs. (Maker)
14 x 18 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Joseph Lovejoy
2016.186.1
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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