Mary Mitchell's Silk Embroidery Painting from Mrs. Rowson's Academy

The rustic monochromatic scene worked in silk thread on silk, with painted sky and tree details, depicting a lone traveler approaching a castle surrounded by trees with water in the distance, the eglomise border states "Wrought by Mary Mitchell at Mrs Rowsons Academy," framed in modern gilded fluted frame.

13.75 x 11 in. framed dimensions

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762-1824) was a writer, actress, editor of Boston Weekly magazine, and later a proprietor of a successful academy for young ladies in Boston, Massachusetts from 1797-1822. There, mastering embroidery was an essential requirement of a good education for girls of the time.

Good estate condition; not examined out of frame.