Artist/Maker

Scott, Mary Jane

Place Made

Date Made

1824-1828

Medium

silk on silk, watercolor

Dimensions

HOA: 13 1/4; WOA: 14 1/4

Accession Number

2896

Description

MAKER: Mary Jane Scott was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1814 to Thomas Osborne Scott (1775-1837) and Jane Haskins (1781-1856). She married Branch Osborne Scott (1800-1862) in 1828 and they had thirteen children. She died in 1879 at the age of 64.

DESCRIPTION: Ornamental embroidery using silk and chenille thread on a silk ground fabric with parts painted with watercolor. Colors mostly blues, greens and golds. Large urn and monument on left. A woman in a neoclassical pose with an arm lifted upward, seated under a tree on right. Ornamental embroidery was a popular exercise for accomplished young girls, typically taught in academies.

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon F. S. Stark