{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3986"},"altNumsArchivespace":{"label":"ArchiveSpace","value":"P1.2001.287"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"titlesPopular":{"label":"Title (popular)","value":"Newburyport Needlework Picture"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Ralph Esmerian"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1810"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2013     1   48"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2013.1.48"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":""},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"Adam Reich"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Silk on linen"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Newburyport"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/28190/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"28190"},{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/28191/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"28191"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Needlework Picture"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Newburyport"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Many needleworks at the turn of the nineteenth century featured elements that were part of the neoclassical scheme. Another popular theme was the idea of the pastoral. This unusual example is solidly worked in silk threads over the entire surface. It includes a three-story federal mansion in an idyllic scene far from the clustered community set across a wide stream. Female academies and seminary schools were frequently located in such bucolic settings, which were considered to be more physically and mentally healthful than urban centers. The building\u2014perhaps a school?\u2014is carefully detailed with mullioned windows, double-end chimneys, a widow\u2019s walk, and a fanlight over the impressive doorway. The front garden is filled with beautiful flowering vines protected by a white fence from animals grazing in the landscape. This elegant scene is peopled with similarly refined figures who ramble along the paths in fashionable attire, slim cream- and rose-striped dresses for the women and cream- and rose-colored suits for the men. The needlework descended with a label stating it was embroidered by a nine-year-old Newburyport girl.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cNewburyport Needlework Picture,\u201d exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014. 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","Neoclassicism finally flowered throughout America during the first decade of the nineteenth century, and its most conspicuous evidence in schoolgirl art was a wealth of lustrous urns, willows, and weepers derived from prints commemorating George Washington\u2019s death on December 14, 1799. Far more uncommon is this solidly worked silk embroidery featuring an elegant three-story Federal mansion within a serene setting. Its delicate flowering garden is carefully protected by a white fence from peacefully grazing sheep and cows and a sprightly horse gamboling beside a sparkling pond, where placid ducks swim. People clad in natty, slim garments appear to pause for conversation as they amble along the gently curving pathway from town, while a young girl observes them from beneath a tree by the lakeside.Unfortunately, the girl who worked this piece neither signed nor dated it. There is no evidence of how Nancy Todd Morrison (1836\u20131935) acquired this piece, nor of her presence in Newburyport. She was born in Ripley, Maine, and was third among the four children of Ira Morrison (1798\u20131870) and Sophia Colby (1801\u2013after 1880). She was educated at the Sanbornton Bridge Conference Seminary and Female College (Sanbornton Bridge, New Hampshire) and at Atkinson Academy (Atkinson, New Hampshire). In 1880, she was described as a teacher and artist in Rowley, Massachusetts. Furthermore, the Diary of Deacon Joshua Jewett of Rowley reveals that Morrison taught school there in 1859 and for many years resided with the family of the Reverend John Pike. Like her parents and her siblings, she died in Braintree, Massachusetts, and the embroidery became the property of her niece.At present, this embroidery\u2019s closest counterpart was worked by Phebe Carlton of North Andover, Massachusetts. It has a two-story mansion with a fenced front garden, a similar horse near a duck pond in the right foreground, and two little ladies in dresses of about 1796. Its major difference is a silk ground material and a painted sky.","Pictorial needlework in a variety of green, blue, white, pink, yellow, and brown silk on a linen ground worked with a depiction of a handsome three-storied house with yellow roof  and widow's walk, with black windows, the casement stitches in yellow silk thread, having an enclosed rose garden, a pasture with grazing cows at left, a stand of trees at right, figures of gentlemen and ladies walking along a path leading to a town with steepled church, a white horse below, and a pond with swan and a glock of sheep, one black, grazing in the foreground. In original frame.","Sotheby's description: Fine Needlework Pictorial Sampler, Probably Newburyport, MA, Late 18th century/early 19th century, executed in a variety of green, blue, white, pink, yellow, and brown silk stitches on a linen ground and worked with a depiction of a handsome three-storied white house with yellow roof and widow's-walk, with black window, the casement stitches in yellow silk thread, having an enclosed rose garden, a pasture with grazing cows at left, a strand of trees at right, figures of gentlemen and ladies walking along a path leading to a town with steepled church, a white horse below, and a pond with swan and a flock of sheep, one black grazing in the foreground. In the original frame. 16 1/4 by 17 1/2 in. (41 by 44.5 cm)A paper label attached the backing states: Sampler formerly owned by Nancy Todd Morrison, born in 1836 of Newburyport, Massachusetts. . . Sampler embroidered by a nine-year old Newburyport girl. Estimate: $8,000-10,000 "]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Textiles"},"titlesDescriptive":{"label":"Title (descriptive)","value":"Newburyport Needlework Picture"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Newburyport"},"titlesFormer":{"label":"Title (former)","value":"Newburyport Needlework Picture"},"pubreferences":{"label":"Published References","value":"Maine Antiques Digest, March 1986, 10-B, ill.               Betty Ring, \"Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993                                       London Times, February 1986; London Herald Tribune; London Telegraph, April 2, 1986; New York Times, Rita Reif, February 7, 1986"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154772"},"geographyState":{"value":"Massachusetts"},"titlesArtists":{"label":"Title (artist's/given)","value":"Newburyport Needlework Picture"},"markings":{"label":"Markings","value":"Paper label attached to back: Sampler formerly owned by Nancy Todd Morrison, born in 1836 of Newburyport, Massachusetts ... Sampler embroidered by a nine-year old Newburyport girl."},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"titlesTranslation":{"label":"Title (translated)","value":"Newburyport Needlework Picture"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"titles":{"label":"Titles","value":"Newburyport Needlework Picture"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"103","content":"Artist unidentified"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Textiles"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Many needleworks at the turn of the nineteenth century featured elements that were part of the neoclassical scheme. Another popular theme was the idea of the pastoral. This unusual example is solidly worked in silk threads over the entire surface. It includes a three-story federal mansion in an idyllic scene far from the clustered community set across a wide stream. Female academies and seminary schools were frequently located in such bucolic settings, which were considered to be more physically and mentally healthful than urban centers. The building\u2014perhaps a school?\u2014is carefully detailed with mullioned windows, double-end chimneys, a widow\u2019s walk, and a fanlight over the impressive doorway. The front garden is filled with beautiful flowering vines protected by a white fence from animals grazing in the landscape. This elegant scene is peopled with similarly refined figures who ramble along the paths in fashionable attire, slim cream- and rose-striped dresses for the women and cream- and rose-colored suits for the men. The needlework descended with a label stating it was embroidered by a nine-year-old Newburyport girl.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cNewburyport Needlework Picture,\u201d exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014. 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","Neoclassicism finally flowered throughout America during the first decade of the nineteenth century, and its most conspicuous evidence in schoolgirl art was a wealth of lustrous urns, willows, and weepers derived from prints commemorating George Washington\u2019s death on December 14, 1799. Far more uncommon is this solidly worked silk embroidery featuring an elegant three-story Federal mansion within a serene setting. Its delicate flowering garden is carefully protected by a white fence from peacefully grazing sheep and cows and a sprightly horse gamboling beside a sparkling pond, where placid ducks swim. People clad in natty, slim garments appear to pause for conversation as they amble along the gently curving pathway from town, while a young girl observes them from beneath a tree by the lakeside.Unfortunately, the girl who worked this piece neither signed nor dated it. There is no evidence of how Nancy Todd Morrison (1836\u20131935) acquired this piece, nor of her presence in Newburyport. She was born in Ripley, Maine, and was third among the four children of Ira Morrison (1798\u20131870) and Sophia Colby (1801\u2013after 1880). She was educated at the Sanbornton Bridge Conference Seminary and Female College (Sanbornton Bridge, New Hampshire) and at Atkinson Academy (Atkinson, New Hampshire). In 1880, she was described as a teacher and artist in Rowley, Massachusetts. Furthermore, the Diary of Deacon Joshua Jewett of Rowley reveals that Morrison taught school there in 1859 and for many years resided with the family of the Reverend John Pike. Like her parents and her siblings, she died in Braintree, Massachusetts, and the embroidery became the property of her niece.At present, this embroidery\u2019s closest counterpart was worked by Phebe Carlton of North Andover, Massachusetts. It has a two-story mansion with a fenced front garden, a similar horse near a duck pond in the right foreground, and two little ladies in dresses of about 1796. Its major difference is a silk ground material and a painted sky.","Pictorial needlework in a variety of green, blue, white, pink, yellow, and brown silk on a linen ground worked with a depiction of a handsome three-storied house with yellow roof  and widow's walk, with black windows, the casement stitches in yellow silk thread, having an enclosed rose garden, a pasture with grazing cows at left, a stand of trees at right, figures of gentlemen and ladies walking along a path leading to a town with steepled church, a white horse below, and a pond with swan and a glock of sheep, one black, grazing in the foreground. In original frame.","Sotheby's description: Fine Needlework Pictorial Sampler, Probably Newburyport, MA, Late 18th century/early 19th century, executed in a variety of green, blue, white, pink, yellow, and brown silk stitches on a linen ground and worked with a depiction of a handsome three-storied white house with yellow roof and widow's-walk, with black window, the casement stitches in yellow silk thread, having an enclosed rose garden, a pasture with grazing cows at left, a strand of trees at right, figures of gentlemen and ladies walking along a path leading to a town with steepled church, a white horse below, and a pond with swan and a flock of sheep, one black grazing in the foreground. In the original frame. 16 1/4 by 17 1/2 in. (41 by 44.5 cm)A paper label attached the backing states: Sampler formerly owned by Nancy Todd Morrison, born in 1836 of Newburyport, Massachusetts. . . Sampler embroidered by a nine-year old Newburyport girl. Estimate: $8,000-10,000 "]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1805"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":""},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1805\u20131810"},"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, September 27, 2017 - Thursday, February 8, 2018","exhibitionEndISODate":"2018-02-08","exhibitionID":"214","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2017-09-27","exhibitionBeginDate":"2017","exhibitionTitle":"Highlights from Self-Taught Genius","exhibitionEndDate":"2018"},{"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":"Saturday, September 14, 1996 - Sunday, January 5, 1997","exhibitionEndISODate":"1997-01-05","exhibitionID":"81","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1996-09-14","exhibitionBeginDate":"1996","exhibitionTitle":"A Place for Us","exhibitionEndDate":"1997"},{"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, May 13, 2014 - Sunday, August 17, 2014","exhibitionEndISODate":"2014-08-17","exhibitionID":"171","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2014-05-13","exhibitionBeginDate":"2014","exhibitionTitle":"Self-Taught Genius","exhibitionEndDate":"2014"},{"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"}]},"altNums":{"label":"Alternative Numbers","value":"P1.2001.287"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"16 1/4 x 17 1/2 \" (41.3 x 44.5 cm)Frame: 23 3/4 x 25 1/2 \" (60.3 x 64.8 cm)"},"titlesInscribed":{"label":"Title (inscribed)","value":"Newburyport Needlework Picture"}}]}