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Mourning picture
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Mourning picture

Unknown · 1794 · Medium: silk, linen, hair Technique: embroidered

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Black and white 'etching style" mourning picture has a woman near a tomb with the initials JC MC and the year 1794. Weeping willow to the left, and a graveyard with a tree and small owl on the right. Building in the background.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description
Credit lineMourning picture. 1794. Unknown. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Bequest of Marsha Carson. CC0.

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