Picture, Needlework
- Title:
- Wetherbee House
- Object Name:
- Picture, Needlework
- Object ID:
- 1946.023.02
- Creator:
- Wetherbee, Susan J. (1826-1892)
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, VT
- Date:
- 1840-1850
- Description:
- Embroidered picture of the Wetherbee House, Concord, VT, made by Susanna J. Wetherbee (1826-1892), Concord, VT, 1840-1850. Finely punched cardstock is worked in tent and straight stitches with fine Berlin wool and silk threads with an image of a two-story white house, with a one-story ell, seen from the side, but with the perspective flattened. Next to the house is a fenced yard with trees, again with the perspective flattened so that the white picket fence appears to lie on the ground. Vines grow up over the green ell door. Inscribed below the front of the house, "Sweet Home. / SJW." The embroidered cardstock is unattached to, but lies against a sheet of blue paper. Framed.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Cardboard - Dimensions:
- H-9.2 W-10.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Susan J. Wetherbee Hopkinson (1826-1892) was the mother-in-law of the donor. Scene is of the Wetherbee home in Concord, VT.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mary C. Hopkinson
- Subjects:
- Houses, Flowers, Embroidery
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