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- Needlework, Penelope Taking Down the Bow of Ulysses, 1790-1810 - Fifteen-year-old Mary Jacobs composed and crafted this needlework picture over many hours, probably while attending a school for privileged ladies. Her design - a scene from the Greek epic poem, the <em>Odyssey</em> - exemplifies a contemporary interest in classical antiquity. Turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Americans associated ancient Greek and Roman imagery with the rebirth of democracy and representative government in their young republic.
- 1790-1810
- Collections - Artifact
Needlework, Penelope Taking Down the Bow of Ulysses, 1790-1810
Fifteen-year-old Mary Jacobs composed and crafted this needlework picture over many hours, probably while attending a school for privileged ladies. Her design - a scene from the Greek epic poem, the Odyssey - exemplifies a contemporary interest in classical antiquity. Turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Americans associated ancient Greek and Roman imagery with the rebirth of democracy and representative government in their young republic.