Sampler

Object Name: Sampler

Object ID: 1925.013.03

Place of Origin: Cornish, NH

Date: 1827-1835

Description: Sampler. No name, Cornish, NH; 1827-1835. Silk twist threads embroidered on loosely woven linen. Alphabets across the top third: first, script capitals worked in cross stitch; second, also script capitals worked in cross stitch; third, block capitals worked in cross stitch, followed by numbers one through nine; fourth, lower-case block letters in cross stitch. Center panel of sampler includes an unfinished (?) indecipherable word ("Aged"?) followed by "8" and "1676," which is much too early for this type of sampler. Below this line is a verse in two columns: "Happy the maid whom circling year improve / Her God the object of her warmest love / Whose useful hours successive as they glide / The Book the Needle and the Pen devide [sic]." Second column: "Cornish is my dwelling Place / Newhampshire is my stattion [sic] / Sullivan is my residence / English is my nation." The bottom third of the sampler is embroidered with a rural scene consisting of a white hipped-roof house, with gardens and trees, and an arched arbor over a small outbuilding; sheep graze at the bottom of a hill on the right. Simple border consists of different-colored blocks of cross stitches outside a sawtooth edge. Stitches are mostly cross, but French knots, fan, eyelet, and closely worked outline stitches are used in the scene at bottom and in the bands dividing the lines of alphabet. Sides of linen ground are selvage; top and bottom are hemmed.

Material: Textile
Silk
Linen

Dimensions: H-21 W-17.3 inches

Credit Line: Loaned by Emma G. Carpenter

People: Carpenter, Emma G. (1854-1944)

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