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Washington, Martha Handmade Brussels Lace Riding Veil. Provenance: Hortense Monroe McIntire the great-great-granddaughter of James Monroe. Ex; Claude Harkins Collection.

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Washington, Martha handmade brussels lace veil. original hand-made riding veil worn by Martha washington at Mount Vernon, 19 × 96 in. Folded in Frame (44 × 26 in.) The veil is constructed of homemade, cream-colored Brussels net lace. The long, rectangular panel featured a design of oval shapes surrounding a simple center medallion (on a net ground) flanked by secondary medallion (on a net ground) and elliptical forms on a ground of dense lace pattern. The Oval designs and medallion are defined by double rows of hedebows (the circular buttonhole designs). The edge of the panel is trimmed in picots.

Washington, Martha handmade brussels lace veil. original hand-made riding veil worn by Martha washington at Mount Vernon, 19 × 96 in. Folded in Frame (44 × 26 in.) The veil is constructed of homemade, cream-colored Brussels net lace. The long, rectangular panel featured a design of oval shapes surrounding a simple center medallion (on a net ground) flanked by secondary medallion (on a net ground) and elliptical forms on a ground of dense lace pattern. The Oval designs and medallion are defined by double rows of hedebows (the circular buttonhole designs). The edge of the panel is trimmed in picots.

This veil was first sold in February 1917 at Stan V. Henkels in Philadelphia, Catalogue No. 1186, lot 5. The sale was called “The Great Historical Sale”, and included” Relics of George and Martha Washington and of James Monroe belonging to Mrs. Hortense Monroe McIntire including lady Washington’s and Mrs Monroe’s Laces and Dresses”. This veil was sold again at Christie’s on 17 November 1941, lot 276, and then at Alderfer’s in Philadelphia on September 28, 2001, lot 870. In the 1941 Christie’s sale, the two lots before this veil (lot 276)were the veil that Martha wore in the famous Gilbert Stuart painting that hangs in the White House alongside the Lansdowne portrait of Washington (lot 274) and Martha’s wedding veil (lot 275).The above veil is believed the same Veil that Martha wore while riding her carriage. Mrs Hortense Monroe was the great-great-granddaughter of James Monroe, whose mother was the youngest daughter of Lloyd N. Rogers and Miss Hortensia Hay, a granddaughter of president Monroe. When James Monroe was minister of France, his daughter went to school in Paris and while studying under the famous Mme Campan, formed a friendship with Hortense Beauharnais, daughter of Empress Josephine by her first husband. The friendship kept up and Monroe’s daughter, who had married Judge Hay, named her daughter Hortensia after Hortense who was Queen of Holland at the time and who became godmother to Hortensia’s granddaughter, Hortense Monroe McIntire received this Veil and other Washington relics from her grandmother. A branch of the Rogers family (mentioned above) married unto the Washington family. Exhibited at the Colonial Society (Revolutionary America !763-1783) April 20- November 3, 2002. Provenance: Claude Harkins Collection.