April 19, 2016 10:00 EST
American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
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Rare embroidered plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia
susanna wilkinson atkinson, aged 14 years, alexandria, va, dated, "180
7" After a plan of the city drawn by Pierre Charles L'Enfant and Andrew Ellicott, published by James Thackara and John Vallance of Philadelphia, 1792, worked with silk threads, watercolor and ink on a silk ground, the needles inserted below inscription, framed.
21 in. x 35 1/2 in. (sight)
Provenance: By descent in a Virginia family to the present owner.
Sold for $112,500
Estimated at $15,000 - $25,000
7" After a plan of the city drawn by Pierre Charles L'Enfant and Andrew Ellicott, published by James Thackara and John Vallance of Philadelphia, 1792, worked with silk threads, watercolor and ink on a silk ground, the needles inserted below inscription, framed.
Provenance: By descent in a Virginia family to the present owner.
A Susanna W. Atkinson married Jesse A. Bonner in Brunswick, Virginia, January 3, 1816.
The fourth known Plan of the City of Washington embroidery; others are found in the collections of Dumbarton House--The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Winterthur Museum and Colonial Williamsburg.
Literature: Allen, Gloria Seaman. Columbia's Daughters: Girlhood Embroidery from the District of Columbia, (2012), pp. 58-67.
