Pocketbook
Maker
Elisabeth Fellows
(American)
Additional Title(s)
- Needlework Pocketbook
Collections
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Date1776
Mediumwool on linen, cotton trim
Dimensionsplexi case: 5 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (13.3 x 23.5 x 8.9 cm.)
DescriptionFold over needle work wallet floral pattern; with “Elisabeth Fellows 1776”; New England.
Credit LineJonathan and Karin Fielding Collection
Label TextPocketbooks were used by both men and women. While men’s purses carried coins, paper money, invoices, and receipts, women typically used theirs for jewelry, sewing implements, and other personal items. Most pocket books were stitched in floral or abstract patterns in crewel - a two-ply worsted yarn - on linen. As status symbols denoting wealth and social standing, they were often stitched by a wife or daughter and presented as gifts to parents or husbands.Status
On viewObject numberL2015.41.68
Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun
ca. 1784
Object number: 2022.20
Savonnerie Manufactory
1719/84; frame of later date (probably nineteenth-century).
Object number: 11.41
