Portrait of Queen Victoria. Embroidered by Agnes Pringle Wallace, based on a painting by Mary Ann 'Mclean' Pringle. St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. 1841. Satin embroidered in silk and wool. 963.14.2.A. Gift of Mr. Andrew H. Wallace.
Portrait of Queen Victoria. Embroidered by Agnes Pringle Wallace, based on a painting by Mary Ann 'Mclean' Pringle. St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. 1841. Satin embroidered in silk and wool. 963.14.2.A. Gift of Mr. Andrew H. Wallace.
Embroidered alphabet sampler with brick house. Made by Jane Eliza Crooks (age 9). Canada. 1809. Embroidered in cross, chain, laid-on stitches and pulled work. 979.278.1. Gift of Mrs. Dorothy M. Roper.
Fellowship Year: 2000
Project Title: The Public and the Private Face of Fashionable Domestic Embroidery in 19th Century Canada
The Public and the Private Face of Fashionable Domestic Embroidery in 19th Century Canada
Dr. Salahub’s research investigated the ROM’s collection of 19th century Canadian domestic embroideries that have traditionally been dismissed as a private feminine activity. Her investigation views them as cultural documents of decorative art used to demonstrate bourgeois femininity in Victorian Canada, and as a portal through which women were able to enter and discuss public life, culture, and ideas. She suggested that in Canada, fashionable domestic embroidery was not merely a passive occupation—one imposed upon middle-class women as a means of inculcation of social expectations—but was also a sophisticated means by which women negotiated a path within the public, traditionally held to be male, sphere.
About the Fellow:
Dr. Salahub completed her PhD in 1998 at the Royal Academy of Art, London, with her thesis entitled, "Dutiful Daughter, Fashionable Domestic Embroidery and the British Model, 1764 -1911." At the time of her fellowship, Salahub was an instructor in Art History at the University of Ottawa, Concordia, and Marianopolis CEGEP. Currently, Dr. Salahub is a Professor in Critical and Creative Studies at the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Dr. Salahub completed her PhD in 1998 at the Royal Academy of Art, London, with her thesis entitled, "Dutiful Daughter, Fashionable Domestic Embroidery and the British Model, 1764 -1911." At the time of her fellowship, Salahub was an instructor in Art History at the University of Ottawa, Concordia, and Marianopolis CEGEP. Currently, Dr. Salahub is a Professor in Critical and Creative Studies at the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Related Publications: Quebec samplers: ABCs of embroidery, Montréal : McCord Museum of Canadian History, 1994.
Quebec samplers: ABCs of embroidery, Montréal : McCord Museum of Canadian History, 1994.