(ART) (FOLK ART) Emmeline Sold

Sale 1961 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 632

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(ART.) (FOLK ART.) Emmeline Sold. Needlepoint representation of a distressed young white woman with her Black female servant laying down behind her, 19x13 1/2 inches; some slight toning to the cloth, very small area of browning or darkening in the upper right corner; in an old frame. Np, probably 19th century

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From the title we would presume that Emmeline is the young Black woman who has just been sold, much to the distress of the young white woman. Anti-slavery themes often appeared on 19th-century pieces of needlework.