{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3900"},"altNumsArchivespace":{"label":"ArchiveSpace","value":"P1.2001.279"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"titlesPopular":{"label":"Title (popular)","value":"Hannah Carter Canvaswork Picture"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Ralph Esmerian"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1753"},"labelText":{"label":"Label Text","value":""},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2013     1   44"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2013.1.44"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":""},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"John Parnell"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Silk and wool on linen"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Boston"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/4852/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"4852"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Canvaswork Picture"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Boston"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Hannah Carter\u2019s elegant lady in a pastoral setting belongs to colonial Boston\u2019s most famous form of needlework, featuring the so-called fishing lady motif. It first captured the attention of collectors and scholars when seven canvaswork pictures featuring an identical lady holding a fishing pole were published in 1923. It was 1941, however, before convincing evidence was offered that these and related pastoral embroideries were worked by young girls while attending Boston boarding schools. Twelve fishing ladies were recorded within a group of fifty-eight related pieces, and eventually they all became known as \u201cfishing lady\u201d pictures, with or without the pole or the lady. Today, seventeen pieces that depict the fishing lady are known, but only six makers have been identified, and the schools they attended have defied discovery. The close similarity of motifs in Hannah\u2019s embroidery, especially the flowering tree at left, leaves little doubt that she was taught by the fishing lady instructress.The artist\u2019s identity may never be proven, but the most likely Hannah Carter was born in Boston on August 31, 1732. She was the oldest child of shipwright Ralph Carter (1700\u2013?) and Sarah Bomer Thompson (1705\u2013?), who were married by Dr. Joseph Sewall at the Old South Church on November 21, 1731. She may also have been the Hannah Carter who married ropemaker Thomas Ayres (1728\u2013?) on July 12, 1753. Betty Ring, \"Hannah Carter Canvaswork Picture,\" in Stacy C. Hollander, American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 512.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","Tent stitched on very fine linen. Pastoral landscape with hillock and flowering tree LS.  Large centered figure of  woman in red dress holding fan in (P) right hand raised up, flower in left hand at waist. Large butterfly over her head.  Flowering tree RS with red bird. Foreground with mounted hunter LL corner dogs, bird, stag, strawberries."]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["Textiles","eMuseum - Collection Highlights"]},"titlesDescriptive":{"label":"Title (descriptive)","value":"Hannah Carter Canvaswork Picture"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Boston"},"titlesFormer":{"label":"Title (former)","value":"Hannah Carter Canvaswork Picture"},"pubreferences":{"label":"Published References","value":"Expressions of a NEW Sprit: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art.  Elizabeth V. Warren and Stacy Hollander.  New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1989, ill.                                        Betty Ring, \"Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850, Volume I, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993                             Treasures of American Folk Art/Museum of American Folk Art.   Lee Kogan, Barbara Cate, 1994, ill."},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154744"},"geographyState":{"value":"Massachusetts"},"titlesArtists":{"label":"Title (artist's/given)","value":"Hannah Carter Canvaswork Picture"},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"Cross-stitched signature foreground left of center around bird."},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"titlesTranslation":{"label":"Title (translated)","value":"Hannah Carter Canvaswork Picture"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"titles":{"label":"Titles","value":"Hannah Carter Canvaswork Picture"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"1776","content":"Hannah Carter"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Textiles"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Hannah Carter\u2019s elegant lady in a pastoral setting belongs to colonial Boston\u2019s most famous form of needlework, featuring the so-called fishing lady motif. It first captured the attention of collectors and scholars when seven canvaswork pictures featuring an identical lady holding a fishing pole were published in 1923. It was 1941, however, before convincing evidence was offered that these and related pastoral embroideries were worked by young girls while attending Boston boarding schools. Twelve fishing ladies were recorded within a group of fifty-eight related pieces, and eventually they all became known as \u201cfishing lady\u201d pictures, with or without the pole or the lady. Today, seventeen pieces that depict the fishing lady are known, but only six makers have been identified, and the schools they attended have defied discovery. The close similarity of motifs in Hannah\u2019s embroidery, especially the flowering tree at left, leaves little doubt that she was taught by the fishing lady instructress.The artist\u2019s identity may never be proven, but the most likely Hannah Carter was born in Boston on August 31, 1732. She was the oldest child of shipwright Ralph Carter (1700\u2013?) and Sarah Bomer Thompson (1705\u2013?), who were married by Dr. Joseph Sewall at the Old South Church on November 21, 1731. She may also have been the Hannah Carter who married ropemaker Thomas Ayres (1728\u2013?) on July 12, 1753. Betty Ring, \"Hannah Carter Canvaswork Picture,\" in Stacy C. Hollander, American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 512.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","Tent stitched on very fine linen. Pastoral landscape with hillock and flowering tree LS.  Large centered figure of  woman in red dress holding fan in (P) right hand raised up, flower in left hand at waist. Large butterfly over her head.  Flowering tree RS with red bird. Foreground with mounted hunter LL corner dogs, bird, stag, strawberries."]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1743"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":""},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"c. 1748"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - Sunday, September 19, 2010","exhibitionEndISODate":"2010-09-19","exhibitionID":"184","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2010-04-06","exhibitionBeginDate":"2010","exhibitionTitle":"Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands","exhibitionEndDate":"2010"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - Sunday, October 7, 2012","exhibitionEndISODate":"2012-10-07","exhibitionID":"151","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2012-06-20","exhibitionBeginDate":"2012","exhibitionTitle":"COMPASS: Folk Art in Four Directions","exhibitionEndDate":"2012"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, April 13, 1989 - Sunday, July 16, 1989","exhibitionEndISODate":"1989-07-16","exhibitionID":"7","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1989-04-13","exhibitionBeginDate":"1989","exhibitionTitle":"Expressions of A New Spirit","exhibitionEndDate":"1989"},{"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":"Friday, January 21, 2022 - Monday, September 5, 2022","exhibitionEndISODate":"2022-09-05","exhibitionID":"251","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2022-01-21","exhibitionBeginDate":"2022","exhibitionTitle":"MULTITUDES","exhibitionEndDate":"2022"},{"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"}]},"altNums":{"label":"Alternative Numbers","value":"P1.2001.279"},"curatorialRemarks":{"label":"Curatorial Remarks","value":""},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"17 3/4 x 15 3/4 \" (45.1 x 40 cm)Frame: 21 x 18 7/8 x 1 1/2 \" (53.5 x 47.9 x 3.8 cm)"},"titlesInscribed":{"label":"Title (inscribed)","value":"Hannah Carter Canvaswork Picture"}}]}