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Memorial to George Washington
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After a young lady learned to embroider a sampler, she might attend a female academy to make a silk embroidered picture. This was a more challenging technique that became popular in the early 1800s. Subjects included classical, biblical, and historical scenes, as well as mourning pictures. The death of George Washington gave impetus to this new fad of the mourning picture. It included an assortment of plinth, urn, mourners, and trees in a garden setting.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineMemorial to George Washington. National Museum of American History, The Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne American Folk Art Collection. CC0.
