Bacheller, C. (1880). Crazy Quilt [Silk plain weave, velvet, and satin]. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/115539/crazy-quilt
Bacheller, C. (1880). Crazy Quilt [Silk plain weave, velvet, and satin]. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/115539/crazy-quilt
Moulton, J., & approximately 1820- John S. Moulton. ([ca. 1850–1920]). Boston and vicinity. Boston Common [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7p88d372g
There is a well-known part of Celestine's hometown of Lynn, MA called High Rock; from here one can turn and see Boston, the ocean, the town of Nahant, Salem to the north, and the rest of Lynn. This quilt square alludes to this famous point, with the dark patches of the earth in the foreground and the ocean and Nahant off in the distance. The view to the right is from the Boston Common, around the time Celestine would have seen it. Man-made, it departs drastically from the coastal majesty Celestine tried to capture in her quilt.