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Artist(s): Abigail Barker Noyes (Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, 1795 - July 8, 1864, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts)
Title: Mount Vernon
Date: 1812
Dimensions: 12 1/4 in. x 16 3/4 in. (31.12 cm x 42.55 cm)
Medium: Embroidery and opaque watercolor on paper and canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Gift of Mrs. Henry P. Moseley, 1940.75

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Exhibitions: In and Out of Place

Object Information

Embroidery was part of the formal education of many young women in the Northeast in the 18th- and 19th centuries. Abigail Barker Noyes learned it at Miss Patten’s boarding school in Hartford, Connecticut. Embroideries copied from prints required a high degree of skill and Noyes’s image of Mount Vernon, George Washington’s famed plantation home, was based on an engraving by Francis Jukes after a painting by Alexander Robertson, c. 1800. Both the painting and the print were likely inspired by the first president’s sudden death in 1799, which prompted the creation of images honoring his life and contributions to the country. In drawing Mount Vernon, Noyes, Jukes, and Robertson celebrated its legacy as a seat of national identity.

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Embroidery was part of the formal education of many young women in
the Northeast in the 18th- and 19th centuries. Abigail Barker Noyes learned
it at Miss Patten’s boarding school in Hartford, Connecticut. Embroideries
copied from prints required a high degree of skill and Noyes’s image
of Mount Vernon, George Washington’s famed Virginia plantation home,
was based on an engraving by Francis Jukes after a painting by Alexander
Robertson, c. 1800. Both the painting and the print were likely inspired
by the first president’s sudden death in 1799, which prompted the creation
of images honoring his life and contributions to the country. In drawing
Mount Vernon, Noyes, Jukes, and Robertson celebrated its legacy as a seat
of national identity, while ignoring the presence of the hundreds of
enslaved men, women, and children who maintained the sprawling estate.

George Washington MLC 2019

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Early Views of Mount Vernon, The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 1/1/1955 - 3/15/1955
War and Commemoration: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/5/1989 - 6/11/1989
Ideas and Notations: Masterworks on Paper from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/10/1992 - 8/2/1992
Presence of the Past: Decorative Arts at Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/21/1995 - 3/19/1995
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/5/1995 - 12/17/1995
Framework: American Pictures and Frames, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/16/1999 - 4/4/1999
Conversations: A Collection in Dialogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/7/2003 - 7/31/2003
Art and Craft, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/30/2005 - 7/31/2005
In and Out of Place , Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/16/2019 - 7/31/2019
George Washington: American Icon, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2019 - 11/3/2019

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