Excerpt: ...is a purely emblematic figure of an emotion, rather than a real mourner. The shading of the monument was generally done in India ink, so that the actual embroidery was confined to the trunk and long 78 branches of weeping willow, and the dress of the figure, and the ground upon which willow and monument and figure stand. The faces being always hidden by the handkerchief, and a tinted satin serving for the sky, the execution of these memorial pictures was comparatively simple. They certainly bear an undue ...
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Excerpt: ...is a purely emblematic figure of an emotion, rather than a real mourner. The shading of the monument was generally done in India ink, so that the actual embroidery was confined to the trunk and long 78 branches of weeping willow, and the dress of the figure, and the ground upon which willow and monument and figure stand. The faces being always hidden by the handkerchief, and a tinted satin serving for the sky, the execution of these memorial pictures was comparatively simple. They certainly bear an undue proportion to those happy family portraits where mother and children, or husband and wife, sit in love and simplicity before the pillared magnificence of the family mansion. larger image Courtesy of Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. larger image Courtesy of Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. Left
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GOOD. 9X6. Black and white photographs, General wear and rubbed cover, soiled (possible water soiling) on fron cover, age toned pages, foxing. Candace Wheeler (1827-1923), who was a needlework artist and an important member of the American Arts & Crafts movement. Wheeler worked briefly for Tiffany. She founded Associated Artists with Louis Comfort Tiffany, Samuel Coleman and Lockwood de Forest _PAB_
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Good. No dust jacket. Red cloth covers with slight corner bumps. Title on spine in gilt. Deckled pages. Slight yellowing from age., 152 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. 146 illustrations
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