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Mrs. Rowson’s Academy - lyre

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Boston, 1810. Silver, hand engraved. In the shape of an ancient lyre, 46.7mm × 33.4mm, 7.7 grams, with hole for suspension. Obverse: Miss Lyman 2nd Class, around lines engraved to highlight the structure and strings of the lyre, with the date 1810 below. Reverse: Mrs. Rowson's Academy, around lines engraved to highlight the structure and strings of the lyre, with name G Graupner and the initals M.P. Below.

Provenance:

Stan Steinberg

Mrs. Rowson was a prominent actress and author who established a private school in Boston for young ladies in 1797. She taught various academic subjects, but she also taught music, dancing, needlework, drawing and painting, and many of her students’ works survive. She retired in 1822 and died in 1824, but the school continued to be run by her daughter for some time after that.

Reference:
Giffen, Jane C. "Susanna Rowson and her Academy", Antiques Magazine September, 1970, pp. 436-440.

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