The Indian Princess

American

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This piece is one of five known versions of this design completed by young ladies at school in Boston. All feature the rather large upright shepherdess with her smaller shepherd suitor in a black hat to one side. The Museum’s shepherdess traditionally has been called the Indian Princess because of what appears to be a feathered headdress peeking out from behind her hair. In the eighteenth century an Indian princess was an understood symbol for the American colonies.

The Indian Princess, Wool and silk on linen, embroidered, American

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The Indian Princess, Wool and silk on linen, embroidered, American
The Indian Princess, Wool and silk on linen, embroidered, American
The Indian Princess, Wool and silk on linen, embroidered, American
The Indian Princess, Wool and silk on linen, embroidered, American

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