MAINE NEEDLEWORK MOURNING PICTURE, GOULD
Nancy Gould, (b. Woolwich, Maine, 1789-d. Wiscasset, 1869) was the daughter of John Gould (innkeeper) and Abigail Young
A Fathers loss with fillial grief/I mourn:/ and with a Daughter's tear/below this urn....John Gould died March 1 1801 age XLVIII
needlework on silk with watercolor enhancements
Written in gilded letters in reverse painted glass black border EXECUTED BY NANCY GOULDS (the original framer mistakenly left out the apostrophe)
image 21" by 24", period gilt frame
Along with an extensive genealogical research report by Karen Sabean titled Nancy Gould's Needlework..."Little Nancy Gould was eleven years old when her father John Gould died in Woolwich, Maine, March 1st, 1801...it appears that Nancy Gould's silken embroidery may be among the earliest of the mourning pictures we know of by a Maine girl. Probably, today, it should be hung in a museum.
The research does not determine which boarding school Nancy may have attended. The closest to her family was in East Harpswell; or she could have been sent to Portland, Maine, Boston, or even Mrs. Balch's school in Providence, RI.
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000
Realized: $2,500 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 76 : MAINE NEEDLEWORK MOURNING PICTURE, GOULD
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