- Maker
- Boardman, Hannah (age 13) (1807-1891)
- Date made
- 1820
- Origin
- CT US
- Stitches
- Satin, Cross, Outline, Overlay
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Cotton
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk, Chenille yarn, Paper, Paint
- Predominent Motif
- Flowers on a vine draped between two corner bow knot, a landscape with a house and red barn on a river. A steamboat, constructed of painted paper that is applied to the picture, is on the river; the steamboat has a single mast, waterwheel, and tented area at the back. To the right is a large tree with two applied paper figures of a man and a woman. To the left is a building and tree on a hill. Small portions of the trees and vegetation, as well as the background in the landscape are painted in dark paint directly onto the ground.
- Inscription
- FATHER of light and life Thou GOOD SUPRENE [sic] / O teach me what is good teach me THYSELF. / Save me from folly vanity or vice. / From ev ry [sic] low pursuit and feed my soul. / With Faith with conscious Peace and virtue Pure. / God of all world's Source and Suprme [sic] of things. / From whom all life from whom duration springs. / Intense O let me for thy glory horn. / Nor fruitless view my days and months return. / Hannah Boadman [sic] (Note: "WInter" a poem by JamesTthomson (Scotland 1700-1748)). //
- Length Without Frame
- 28"
- Width Without Frame
- 33 1/2"
- Historical Owner
- #1976.33.0 Gift of the grandchildren of Hannah Boardman: William Mason Holmes, Frances Holmes Boothby and Alice Ovilla Homes.
- Owner
- Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT
- Owner Private
- Connecticut Historical Society
