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Nov 23, 2024
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA NEEDLEWORK PICTURE, wool, silk, and chenille on wool, depicting a large basket of various flowers, below signed, "Worked by Mary E. Ward at the Academy of the / Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy Charleston S.C." Housed under U.V. glass in a modern distressed frame. Mid 19th century. 15 5/8" x 14 1/8" sight, 18 3/4" x 17 1/4" OA.
Published: Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy, Charleston, SC - The View From The Bluff, Issue #66, September 2017, p. 4, bottom fig.
Catalogue Note: A month after Bishop John England established the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Charleston, SC, they opened the Academy in January of 1830. Beginning in a small rented house at 11 Friend Street (now Legare Street) with only six pupils, the school soon expanded, and it was moved to a larger rented house on the same street. Opposite the old cathedral, the house served as a Convent, Academy, and girls' orphanage, and, then, they eventually settled into a new four-story brick building on Queen Street in 1841.
By 1847, Bishop Ignatius Reynolds, the second Bishop of Charleston, encouraged the Sisters of OLM to broaden the academic curriculum to include French, music, and other studies as well has painting, drawing, and needlework in order to attract girls from a higher social class. After the Civil War, the Academy continued, moving to different locations in the city throughout the years until the school closed in 1930.
Mary E. Ward has yet to be identified, though there are a few candidates in South Carolina alone, as found in the 1850 and 1860 U.S. Censuses. This includes Mary E. Ward born c.1841 to parents Thomas and Julian Ward of Laurens Co., SC; Mary E. Ward born c.1843 to parents Alexander and Mary A. Ward of Darlington Co., SC; Mary E. Ward born c.1845 to parents James B. and Angeline Ward of Merrittsville, Greenville Co., SC, also she was noted as having an occupation of Seamstress in the 1860 U.S. Census; Mary E. Ward born c.1853 to parents J.W. and D. Ward of Darlington, SC; and Mary E. Ward born c.1853 to parents Henry and Sarah Ward of Brushy Creek, Greenville Co., SC.
Good to very good visual condition with some toning, wool ground with scattered small holes, some losses to wool thread and chenille, areas of light bleeding of red color most notably in areas of thread loss, some thread with fading/fugitive color, frame with minor wear. Not examined out of frame.
Sumpter Priddy III, Inc., Alexandria, VA.
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