Plate 71.

Two pieces of white lace. Made by Mary Bacon, born February 9, 1787, in Roxbury, Connecticut. She married, November 13, 1815, Chauncey Whittlesey, also of Roxbury. She was a pupil at Miss Sarah Pierce’s Female Academy in Litchfield, Connecticut, in her fifteenth year (see Foreword). Besides painting in water-colors and embroidering pictures in silk, she learned to make lace. (See also Plate 57.) These laces and two views of Quebec, painted in water-colors, are owned by the Litchfield Historical Society.