2007.4
Artist/Maker Heyer, Myra
Date1879-1881
Mediumwool, yarn, hemp
Dimensions98 1/2 x 82 in. (250.2 x 208.3 cm)
Object number2007.4
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionOne unfinished multi-cross-stitch (leviathan stitch) carpet made of wool yarn on a hemp ground. The center is a floral bouquet in multiple colors on a black and green ground. The outer borders are floral scroll and eight stars in bright blue and hot pink, green, and yellow. The rug was worked on board the maiden voyage of the WANDERER by Capt. Andrew Heyer's (first) wife. She died in childbirth on St. Helena in 1881 before finishing the work. Capt. Heyer left the ship to care for his daughter. They returned from St. Helena when the daughter was eight months old.
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Untitled
Untitled
Image Not Available for Wanderer (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass. A.R. Heyer, master. 1878 June 4-1882 May 22 :
Wanderer (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass. A.R. Heyer, master. 1878 June 4-1882 May 22 :
Wanderer (Bark)
1878-1882
2001.100.11165_Box List.pdf
KWM Loose Manuscript Collection
1725-1960
Mss56_SeriesO_Subseries1.pdf
Business records collection,
1745-1925
Image Not Available for [Letters from whaling master Andrew R. Heyer and his wife Myra Heyer, 1879-1881]
[Letters from whaling master Andrew R. Heyer and his wife Myra Heyer, 1879-1881]
Image Not Available for [Tropic Bird (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by James E. Stanton, keeper Lyman W. Bourne 2nd, on voyage 27 September 1881 - 11 June 1883],
[Tropic Bird (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by James E. Stanton, keeper Lyman W. Bourne 2nd, on voyage 27 September 1881 - 11 June 1883],
Tropic Bird (Bark)
Plantation House, The Country Residence of the Governor [St. Helena]
Plantation House, The Country Residence of the Governor [St. Helena]
Bellasis, George Hutchins
1815
Warren Aiken Sewing Box
Warren Aiken Sewing Box
Aiken, Capt. Warren
Potomska
Potomska
James-Perry, Elizabeth
2018
Image Not Available for Journal of the Ospray (Bark) and Louisa (Bark) out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Andrew Heyer and Martin Van Buren Millard, kept by Martin Van Bourne Milliard, on three voyages from 5 May 1868 - 6 April 1878
Journal of the Ospray (Bark) and Louisa (Bark) out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Andrew Heyer and Martin Van Buren Millard, kept by Martin Van Bourne Milliard, on three voyages from 5 May 1868 - 6 April 1878
Ospray (Bark)
1868-1878
Image Not Available for Logbook of the Palmetto (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by James W. Buddington, Andrew R. Heyer, and Silas Pope, kept by James W. Buddington, Silas Pope, Richard George, and George S. Johnson, on two whaling voyages from 24 June 1886 - 9 June 1890
Logbook of the Palmetto (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by James W. Buddington, Andrew R. Heyer, and Silas Pope, kept by James W. Buddington, Silas Pope, Richard George, and George S. Johnson, on two whaling voyages from 24 June 1886 - 9 June 1890
Palmetto (Bark)
1886-1890
00.43
Portrait of Calvin Delano
Charles Delin*
Circa 1805

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