Pennsylvania Lititz Moravian Girls' School silk, chenille, spangles, and paint on silk needlework picture, ca. 1830, the two central figures representing Palemon and Lavinia from the poem Autumn, situated in a pastoral landscape with farm house and mountainous background, with little dog in the foreground, 18 1/2" dia. For a related example, see Ring, Girlhood Embroidery, vol II, fig. 500. A near identical example was sold at Pook & Pook, the Pioneer American Collection of Dr. & Mrs. Donald Shelley, April 21, 2007, lot 431.

NO in-house shipping for this lot. Tear in sky. Stains in background. For a similar example see Pook & Pook's The Pioneer Americana Collection of Dr. & Mrs. Donald A. Shelley, April 21, 2007, Lot 431, sold for $35,100. Provenance: The Estate of Mark and Joan Eaby, Brownstown, Lancaster County, PA; Pook & Pook 1/16/2016, Lot 479; A Pennsylvania collector.