[GOLD-FRINGED GLOVES OF GOVERNOR LEVERETT]
In Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.
[EMBROIDERED PETTICOAT-BAND, 1750]
Bright-colored crewels on linen. Owned by the Misses Manning of Salem, Mass.
[BLUE DAMASK GOWN AND QUILTED SATIN PETTICOAT]
These were owned by Mrs. James Lovell, who was born 1735; died, 1817. Through her only daughter, Mrs. Pickard, who died in 1812, they came to her only child, Mary Pickard (Mrs. Henry Ware, Jr.), whose heirs now own them. They are in the keeping of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
This portrait is of Martin Frobisher, hero of the Armada; explorer in 1576, 1577, and 1578 for the Northwestern Passage, and discoverer of Frobisher’s Bay. He died in 1594.
This portrait is of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire. Owned by the Duke of Bedford. It shows a plain cloth doublet with double row of turreted welts at the shoulder. Horace Walpole says of this portrait, “He is quite in the style of Queen Elizabeth’s lovers; red-bearded, and not comely.”