Virtual Galleries

Martha Ann Honeywell’s Splendid Gallery of Cutting and Needlework

Sarah Rogers’s Astonishing Public Exhibition

Saunders Ken Grems Nellis’s Grand Extraordinary Show

Charles Willson Peale and Moses Williams’s Philadelphia Museum

  • Paper cuts of Lord's Prayer in beige. Ornate flower border with blue trim mounted on black paper.
    Martha Ann Honeywell. The Lord’s Prayer. 1845. Beige paper cut-out laid on black, light blue, and purple papers, pierced with a pin and stitched in silk. New-York Historical Society. https://www.nyhistory.org/
  • Silhouette portrait of Moses Williams.
    Raphaelle Peale or Moses Williams. Moses Williams, Cutter of Profiles. Circa 1803. Hollow-cut silhouette on paper. Library Company of Philadelphia. https://www.librarycompany.org/
  • Advertisement - Illustration of Nellis shooting an arrow with his foot. "Great Natural Curiosity"
    Saunders Ken Grems Nellis. Broadside: Great Natural Curiosity. 1861. Providence, Rhode Island. Ink on yellow paper. Sidney S. Rider Broadside Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University. https://library.brown.edu/
  • Water color of bird on twig with insects.
    Sally Rogers. Watercolor. 1806-1815. Paper, ink, watercolors. Historic Deerfield: Hall and Kate Peterson Fund for Paintings, Prints, Drawings and Photographs. https://www.historic-deerfield.org/
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