Object Name: Sampler
Object ID: 1947.025.62
Creator: Norcross, Dorothy (1824-1898)
Place of Origin: Farmington, ME
Date: 1835 circa
Description: Marking Sampler. Attributed to Dorothy Norcross (1825-1898), Farmington, ME; c. 1835. Embroidered with mostly cross stitches in cotton thread on a plain-woven linen ground fabric. Three alphabets: first, fancy block capital letters; second, large-scale script capital letters; third, lower-case letters, followed by the inscription, "Dorothy Norcross." At the bottom is a very simple outline of a gable-end house, four stick trees, and two bird. Except for one line of half cross (or slant) stitches between lines of alphabets, the sampler is entirely cross-stitched. All four edges are hemmed. Colors are shades of brown to cream, and two shades of blue.
Material: Textile
Linen
Silk
Dimensions: H-13.6 W-9.25 inches
Provenance: Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro) between 1895 and 1913.
Credit Line: The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
People:
Norcross, Dorothy (1824-1898),
Tilney, Mary M. (1855-1914),
Tilney, Robert F. (1849-1926),
Tilney, Jessie Mason (1883-1960)