This painting depicts a bride, rolling her eyes and looking clearly displeased and disinterested on her wedding day. This is especially strange considering the popularity and almost necessity for women in the Nineteenth Century to be married. Used on…
From: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_556365Eliza Jane Baile lovingly stitched and inscribed this cotton album quilt top, finishing a few weeks after her marriage to Levi Manahan in 1851. Original patterns of wreaths of…