Mary Ann (Tipple) Crocheron
Flight into Egypt

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Flight into Egypt
Date1861
Made inBastrop, Texas, United States
MediumLinen and wool
Dimensions26 1/4 × 22 in. (66.7 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Roy M. Needham
Object numberB.91.20
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Born in Suffolk, England, Mary Ann Tipple came to Bastrop, Texas, with assorted family members in about 1840. There she met her husband, Henry Crocheron, and became a member of the Methodist congregation. Mrs. Crocheron is known to have embroidered several pictures depicting religious subjects. Such needlework images united descriptions from the Old and New Testament with the iconography of popular religious prints. The rage for Berlin canvas work coincided with the interest in historical and Biblical subjects, here represented by the Holy Family's exodus to Egypt.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


ProvenanceBy descent in Crocheron family to Roy M. Needham, Houston; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Made in Texas: Art, Life and Culture: 1845–1900," Beeville Art Museum, Texas, September 20, 2014–January 10, 2015.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed at bottom: M A Crocheron / Flight into Egypt. / August.1861
[no marks]

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