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"The Fishing Lady of Boston Common"
This interesting framed needlework is a display owned by the Nantucket Historical Association. The design was popular in New England when Susan Colesworthy (who died in Nantucket in 1811) completed it in 1769. It was bequeathed to the Association by Miss Susan E. Brock, the first Curator of the Fair Street Rooms. Susan Colesworthy was the daughter of Gilbert and Mary Colesworthy. Her father was one of the Boston Tea Party "Mohawks", who in 1773 dumped the British tea into Boston Harbor. The needlework is still in excellent condition and was loaned to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for exhibit in 1941, and was a prominent part of the special exhibit arranged by Elizabeth Gilbert at the Peter Foulger Museum in 1979.
