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South Hadley, Massachusetts silk embroidery by Pitkin from Huber

NANCY (HANCY) PITKIN
"Flora"
South Hadley, Massachusetts
1809

Silk embroidered picture inscribed "FLORA" worked by fourteen year old Nancy (Hancy) Pitkin while at school in South Hadley, MA. Hancy was the daughter of Calvin Pitkin and Hannah Pease from Somers, CT. In 1829 she married Jesse Wilson Rice who was born in Granby, CT and practiced medicine in Wilbraham, MA.

For a similar example see Betty Ring's Girlhood Embroidery p. 163.

Silk, chenille, mica and watercolor on silk; 16 x 13 inches.

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STEPHEN & CAROL HUBER
(860) 388-6809

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