Cut-paper Card with The Lord's Prayer

Martha Anne Honeywell

ca. 1830 · Cut-paper and pen · Drawings and Prints

Miss Honeywell could, with amazing skill and precision, embroider, cut, do needlework, write, and draw using her mouth. In this astounding example, Miss Honeywell has created a complicated decorative frame with a microscopic but legible Lord’s Prayer that could fit under a five-cent piece.

Artist

Martha Anne Honeywell

Date

ca. 1830

Medium

Cut-paper and pen

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1984