{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3754"},"altNumsArchivespace":{"label":"ArchiveSpace","value":"P1.2001.284"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"titlesPopular":{"label":"Title (popular)","value":"Sallie Hathaway Needlework Picture"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Ralph Esmerian"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1799"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2013     1   45"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2013.1.45"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":""},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Silk on silk"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":["",""]},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/3067/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"3067"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Needlework Picture"},"geographyCity":{"value":["",""]},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["From the eighteenth century through the early decades of the nineteenth, a girl from a family of means might strive to attain artistic \u201caccomplishments\u201d in addition to basic sewing skills. Sallie Hathaway was twelve years old when she stitched this appealing embroidery. In 1784 her family moved from Great Barrington, in western Massachusetts to the newly established town of Hudson, New York, where her father became the successful owner of a fleet of ships. It is not known where Sallie was educated during these formative years in Hudson or where she stitched this needlework. The best-known pictorial embroideries on black silk were worked at unidentified schools in Salem, Massachusetts, from the 1740s through the 1770s, and in Boston during the 1750s and 1760s. By framing the needlework on three sides with a Federal swag-and-tassel design, Hathaway has effectively created a stage setting for her needlework tableau, which unfolds in an intimate, personal progression.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Sallie Hathaway Needlework Picture,\" exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org","Silk on silk embroidery of pastoral scene with woman RS seated on hillock wearing feathered hat, holding bouquet of flowers with young girl standing before her.  Man, center, holding bird, two dogs at feet.  Urn of flowers LS.  Weeping willow behind woman, the whole scene framed by swagged embroidered curtain with flowers."]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["Textiles","eMuseum - Collection Highlights"]},"titlesDescriptive":{"label":"Title (descriptive)","value":"Sallie Hathaway Needlework Picture"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":["",""]},"titlesFormer":{"label":"Title (former)","value":"Sallie Hathaway Needlework Picture"},"pubreferences":{"label":"Published References","value":"Betty Ring, \"Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictoral Needlework 1650-1850, Volume I, published by Alfred A. 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New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org","Silk on silk embroidery of pastoral scene with woman RS seated on hillock wearing feathered hat, holding bouquet of flowers with young girl standing before her.  Man, center, holding bird, two dogs at feet.  Urn of flowers LS.  Weeping willow behind woman, the whole scene framed by swagged embroidered curtain with flowers."]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1789"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":"Inscribed paper attached to back: Cursive hand, pen, and ink: \"Work done by/ Mrs. Sallie Hathaway Jenkins/ in the year/ 1787.\" [written by Adella Potter, descendent in the late 1870s]"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"c. 1794"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - Sunday, June 2, 2002","exhibitionEndISODate":"2002-06-02","exhibitionID":"207","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2001-12-11","exhibitionBeginDate":"2001","exhibitionTitle":"American Radiance","exhibitionEndDate":"2002"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - Sunday, August 23, 2009","exhibitionEndISODate":"2009-08-23","exhibitionID":"132","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2004-11-16","exhibitionBeginDate":"2004","exhibitionTitle":"Folk Art Revealed","exhibitionEndDate":"2009"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - Sunday, August 15, 2010","exhibitionEndISODate":"2010-08-15","exhibitionID":"188","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2009-09-01","exhibitionBeginDate":"2009","exhibitionTitle":"Perspectives: Setting the Scene in American Folk Art","exhibitionEndDate":"2010"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - Sunday, September 2, 2012","exhibitionEndISODate":"2012-09-02","exhibitionID":"149","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2012-01-17","exhibitionBeginDate":"2012","exhibitionTitle":"JUBILATION an act of rejoicing | RUMINATION an act of contemplation","exhibitionEndDate":"2012"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, July 2, 2016 - Monday, September 19, 2016","exhibitionEndISODate":"2016-09-19","exhibitionID":"159","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2016-07-02","exhibitionBeginDate":"2016","exhibitionTitle":"AMERICAN MADE","exhibitionEndDate":"2016"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, May 22, 2021 - Sunday, October 8, 2023","exhibitionEndISODate":"2023-10-08","exhibitionID":"245","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2021-05-22","exhibitionBeginDate":"2021","exhibitionTitle":"American Perspectives (Travel)","exhibitionEndDate":"2023"}]},"altNums":{"label":"Alternative Numbers","value":"P1.2001.284"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"17 x 20 1/4 \" (43.2 x 51.4 cm)Frame: 24 3/4 x 27 3/4 x 1 \" (62.9 x 70.3 x 2.5 cm)"},"titlesInscribed":{"label":"Title (inscribed)","value":"Sallie Hathaway Needlework Picture"}}]}