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Stephen & Carol Huber:  Dealers in antique needlework samplers, silk embroidery, cross stitch, tapestries.


Memorial embroidered picture by Nancy Fisher - Huber


Nancy Fishen age 16 - 1808

Nancy Fisher
Silk Embroidered Memorial
Canton, MA dated 1808


Inscribed/ to the memory/ of Mrs Susanna Fisher/ who died Jan 2. 1799/ Aged 31 years./ Lo where this silent/ marble weeps a friend/ a wife a mother/ sleeps. (On Glass) WROUGHT BY NANCY FISHER AT CANTON AGED 13 Y. 1809. This beautifully embroidered and painted memorial was stitched by Nancy Fisher (1792 - 1820) to commemorate her mother Susanna. The face and the background were professionally painted.

Nancy was the third of five children of Elijah Fisher (1765 - 1813) and Susanna Hixon (1768 - 1799).

Silk & watercolor on silk; 18 x 15 inches framed.

$6,500


STEPHEN & CAROL HUBER
(860) 388-6809

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