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VIRTUAL LECTURE: ’The Second Scene of Mortality’: Courtship and Sexual Danger in Revolutionary Connecticut
April 22 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary University Professor Emerita, Harvard University
$10 (members 10% discount)
When Prudence Punderson entitled her silk embroidery The First, Second, and Last Scenes of Mortality, she inadvertently revealed a fraught moment in her own life when sexual attraction and family duty collided. Like other Connecticut women, she not only faced a revolutionary crisis but conflicting notions about courtship that cut against the stylized images in contemporary textile productions.
Join us for a virtual lecture as Ulrich illuminates these fascinating themes tied to the current exhibition, New London County Quilts & Bedcovers, 1750-1825.
Image: Prudence Punderson (1758‒1784), The First, Second, and Last Scene of Mortality, ca. 1776‒1783. Silk embroidery. Connecticut Historical Society, 1962.28.4
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