Samplings: XL by M. Finkel & Daughter

VOLUME XL

Sam~lings: A SELECTED OFFERING OF ANTIQUE SAMPLERS AND NEEDLEWORK

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(detail of sampler by Elizabeth Jacoby, 1 32. page 13

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Welcome ... We are delighted to present this issue of Samplings which is the 40th edition of our catalogue of schoolgirl samplers and needlework, produced semiannually since 1991. To mark and celebrate these 20 years, we have gathered and present an outstanding group of 40 pieces that includes many particularly important and interesting samplers. We hope you enjoy reading about them. Schoolgirl samplers and needlework provide fascinating opportunities to collectors. A sampler acts as a window into the specific history of a young girl, her family, a teacher, a town, a region, and a tradition, and as such provides us with unusual insight. It goes without saying that samplers, from a simple marking piece to an elaborate scene, are also extremely visually appealing. Each of our samplers has been fully researched and documented; it is well-known that we both conduct ourselves and have others engage in intensive genealogical research and often achieve important results. When we describe a sampler or silk embroidery, we frequently refer to a number of fine books that have been written in this field. A selected bibliography is included at the end of the catalogue and is updated regularly. We also include a description page about our conservation methods and encourage you to call us with any questions in this area. This year marks the 64th anniversary of the founding of our firm. We continue to value our positive relationships with clients, many of whom are now second generation, and strive to maintain our commitment to customer service. Buying antiques should be based in large measure on trust and confidence, and we try to treat each customer as we ourselves like to be treated. We operate by appointment and are at the shop Monday through Friday, and are avaialable on weekends, except when we are exhibiting at antiques shows. Please let us know of your plans to visit us. We suggest that you contact us in a timely fashion if one or more of our samplers is of interest to you. Please let us know if you would like us to email you better photos than appear in this catalogue. The majority of the pieces in the catalogue have not yet appeared on our website so as to give our catalogue subscribers the advantage of having a first look. Should your choice be unavailable, we would be happy to discuss your collecting objectives with you. Our inventory is extensive, and we have many other samplers that are not included in our catalogue but which are on our website. Moreover, through our sources, we may be able to locate what you are looking for; you will find us knowledgeable and helpful. Payment may be made by check, VISA, Mastercard, or American Express. Pennsylvania residents should add 6% sales tax. All items are sold with a five day return privilege. Expert packing is included: shipping and insurance costs are extra. We prefer to ship via UPS ground or Federal Express air, insured. We look forward to your phone calls and your interest.

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ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF CONTENTS Anna Bartram, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1797 .................. .................. 4 Maria Elizabeth Blauvelt, Tappan, Rockland County, New York, 1839 ...... ....... ..... 30 Mary Bonne!, Alexandria, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, circa 1835 .................. 32 Ann Amelia Bowers, Gerardstown, Virginia, 1839 ......... .... .... . .... . ............ 3 Lois Burnham, Lynnfield, Massachusetts, 1803 ............... ................ ..... 25 Deborah Butler, White-Work Sampler, Philadelphia area, 1798 ........... .. .... ....... 8 Mary Carr, Jamestown, Rhode Island, 1777 .................. ............... ...... 33 Sarah Otilia Ann Carver, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1833 ......... ................. .... 11 Mary Ann Cooley, N. A. Ladd, Instructress, Middletown, Connecticut, 1 25 . . ....... ..... 6 Elizabeth Daggett, New Haven, Connecticut, 1795 .... .. ......... ................... 2 Louise Dumet, San Jose, California, 1876 ............... .... ........ ........... .. 27 Clarissa Emerson, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1822 ......... ................... ...... 1 Nancy Emerson, Reading, Massachusetts, 1807 ............ ................... ..... 24 Abundia Garcia, Spain or Spanish Colonial, 1867 ............ ... . .............. .... 15 Ann Garrett, Backing School, Essex England, 1802 ..... ... ...... ............... ... 23 Fanny Goddard, England, 1807 .................. ..... ....... ................ ... 30 Eliza Hemenway, Pepperell, Massachusetts, 1835 ..... .... .. . ..... .............. . . . 19 Betty Howson, England, 1803 ......................... ..................... .... 22 Elizabeth Woodwell Hunt, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1807 ...... .................. 12 Elizabeth Jacoby, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832 ........... ................ ...... 12 Catharine Finney Loughead, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1824 .. . ..... ......... . . .... 18 Pamelia Makepeace, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1 22 ........... .... 10 Sarah Michener, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1792 ................. ........ . . ..... 7 Miniature Biblical Verse Sampler, England, Late 18th Century ............ ... ........ 20 Elizabeth Newsam, Massachusetts, 1753 ................. ................... ...... 5 Nye Family Sampler, Pennsylvania, circa 1835 ........ . .. .................... ..... 14 Sarah L. Poag, Chesterville Academy, Chester, South Carolina, 1834 ............ . .. . ... 28 Jane Partridge, Boston, Massachusetts, 1774 ............. ................. .. . ...... 8 Quaker Motif and Medallion Sampler, Initialed RHS, Pennsylvania, 1 0 ......... .. .. . . 19 Rhode Island Needlework Picture, Cooke and Baker Families, 18th Century .... ........ 21 Rowson School Silk Embroidery, Nickerson Family, Boston, Mass., c. 1 15 ....... .... . . 16 Harriet Maria Savory, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1822 ... ....... . . ...... ... ....... 31 Sarah Shearman, England, 1780 ........................ ... ........... ... ....... 31 Sarah Shields, New Castle County, Delaware, circa 1820-25 . ..... ... ... . . ............ 28 Anne Shuffrey, England, 1837 ................................. ........... . ... .. 20 Mary J. Greenfield Smith, The Sisters of Providence School, Baltimore, c. 1 43 ... ...... 26 Sarahanna Smith, Friend's Cove, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, 1834 ........ .. ....... 10 Sibyllah Warner, Evesham, Burlington County, New Jersey, 1807 ............ . ........ 16 Lucy Parkhurst Warren, Jay, Franklin County, Maine, 1810 ...... ...... ... ........ ... 14 Mary W. Whiting, Hingham, Massachusetts, 1812 ............................ . ..... 23

(detail of sampler by Sibyllah Warner, page 16)

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larissa Emerson, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1822

-.=- large and visually commanding sampler was made by Clarissa Emerson, age 14, circa 1822 in ......mcaster, Massachusetts. Illustrated on a full page in the classic and seminal book, American Samplers, by Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe (The Massachusetts Society of The Colonial ames of America, 1921), as plate XLIX, Clarissa's sampler is considered an icon within the world of rly 19th century Massachusetts samplers. The composition of this sampler is outstanding with a :~ endi d, naturalistic border of richly colored, big-blossomed flowers, leaves and berries framing a ~omp el ling scene of two young ladies, each holding a sprig of flowers , sitting on a hillside near a fine rick house. Clarissa demonstrated great skill in the needle arts, but it is also interesting that she used :>aint applied to the linen for the faces of the two figures . The significance and appeal of this sampler - not be overstated.

Born on July 31, 1808, Clarissa lived in the town of Lancaster, which is west and north of Boston. Her :::merson ancestors settled Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1636. Clarissa's parents were Elias and Phebe Hayward) Emerson who married in 1790 in Reading, Massachusetts. Elias (1759-1835) served in the Revo lutionary war in 1778 and again in 1780. They became the parents of twelve children, with Clarissa as thei r youngest. Her sampler descended with family notations and was exhibited in 1920, just prior to i publication in American Samplers. The sampler is in excellent condition, worked in silk and paint on linen. It has been conservation mounted into its original molded and painted frame. ampler size: 21 %" x 16W'

Frame size: 24 W' x 19"

Price upon request.

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Elizabeth Daggett, New Haven, Connecticut, 1795 We always enjoy a sampler that allows for the appreciation of late 18th century needlework, as well as a fascinating narrative regarding the life of the maker. This delightful, small sampler is signed, "Elizabeth Daggetts sampler worked in the 9th year of her age 1795," and was made in New Haven, Connecticut, where Elizabeth was born on July 5, 1786, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Prescott) Daggett. Henry was a successful merchant in the Long Wharf section of New Haven. Elizabeth was the 9th of their 10 children and an outstanding double portrait of her, along with her younger sister Mary (born 1792), was painted circa 1794. Now in the collection of the Connecticut Historical Society, it was published in Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in America by Sandra Brant and Elissa Cullman (Dutton and the Museum of American Folk Art, NY, 1980) . The portrayal of Elizabeth indicates a particularly lovely and intelligent face; amusingly, her yo unger sister ;\-lary pokes her finger into the eye of their doll. Within the year, Elizabeth would have worked this sampler. In 1812 Elizabeth married Edward Hooker and they had 5 children. Their son, John Hooker (18161901), became a lawyer and married Isabella Holmes Beecher (siste r of Harriet Beecher towe) and together John and Isabella became abolitionists, reformers and activists for women's rights. Amongst many other accomplishments, they drafted the bill that gave married women the same property rights as their husbands, and which was passed into law by the Connecticut Legislature. In the 1850s, John co-founded a residential community on the western edge of Hartford, ook Farm, which became nationally known as a colony of non-conformists, attracting like-m inded reformers, artists, writers and spiritualists. Residents included Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. As a widow Elizabeth Daggett Hooker lived next door to her son and daughter-in-law; she died there in 1869. Elizabeth's sampler fits into the late 18th century New Haven tradition of small samplers with a depiction of a house (for a related piece, please refer to the sampler made by Polly Ives Dunbar also dated 1795, figure 35, Connecticut Needlework: Woman, Art and Family 1740 - 1840 by Susan P. Schoelwer). Worked in silk on linen, the sampler is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted and is in a mid 19th century gold leaf frame. Sampler size: 12 W' x lO W'

Frame size: 15%" x 13%"

Price: $5200.

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Ann Amelia Bowers, Gerardstown, Virginia,

18~9

r 路 Sampler tow n Va _:路 The richly-worked borders, embellished by queen's-stitched strawberries and satin-stitched rrie and the register of three outstanding and deftly worked flower arrangements sitting on a _ --_ Virgi nia horizontal zigzag band are indications of the great aptitude of the samplermaker. _ .c...

_ r stown (a more common spelling is "Gerrardstown") is located in Berkeley County, north of chester and it became part of West Virginia when statehood was legally established in 1863. The 路er fa mily figures prominently in the history of this town, which was established in 1784 and h maintains an historic district today. George Meade Bowers (1863-1925), a relative of Ann's no doubt, is Gerrardstown most famous son; he served in the United States House of Representatives from f!:S 1916 to 1923. Ann Amelia Bowers was most likely born between 1825 and 1829. She married, as his second wife, John F. Swartz on May 27, 1844, according to Marriage Records of Berkeley County, Virginia 1781-1854 (1969). We hope that further research will reveal more specifics. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in very good condition with some minor loss to the linen ground. It has been stabilized and conservation mounted, in its fine original mahogany frame. ~am pler

size: 15W' x 17W' Frame size: 19W' x 21W'

Price: $11,000.

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Anna Bartram, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1797 The Bartram family received great recognition in the heady world of Philadelphia in the mid to late 18th century and the ensuing centuries have served to increase this position. John Bartram (16991777), evolved from a simple farmer to become the father of American botany and fo under of the American Philosophical Society. The Society was established in 1743 after Bartram proposed that an academy or society of "ingenious & curious men" be formed "for the study of "naturale secrets, art and syances." The Society, an important scholarly organization with an international rep utation, was established with Benjamin Franklin's support. It is considered the first learned society in America and has rewarded achievement since 1786. Throughout his lifetime, Bartram, a Quaker man without a university education, traveled, studied and published books and journals, notably his Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and other Matters Worthy of Notice, made by Mr. John Bartram in his Travels from Pennsylvania to Onondaga, Oswego, and the Lake Ontario, in Canada (London, 1751). Along with his lifelong interest in botany and seed collecting, his passions included the study of medicine and surgery, and he was honored by many foreign governments for his accomplishments.

Our sampler, a finely worked example of Philadelphia needlework, was made by Bartram's granddaughter, Anna Bartram, and while her life did not overlap with his, the sphere of his influence would have been greatly felt. Anna was born in 1787 to Moses Bartram, who was the second of the ten children of John and his second wife, Ann Mendenhall. Moses (1732-1809) became a highly respected chemist with an apothecary, the "Old Medicinal Shop," that was well known in Philadelphia. He was also a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1776 and along with many other Philadelphia Quakers, Moses Bartram was disowned by the Society of Friends for engaging in war-like activities and joined other similarly ousted Quakers in forming the Society of Free Quakers, which allowed for their militaristic beliefs. Moses played a governing role in this new Meetinghouse. He married Elizabeth Budd in 1764 and Anna was the 7th of their 13 children. (continued on the next page)

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.\nna Bartram, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1797 (continued) · samp ler was carefully worked with sophisticated techniques and delicate stitches, and was • _ ~ complished under the direction of one of Philadelphia's most excellent instructresses, as _ _ ave been expected from a family such as the Bartrams. The sampler offers alphabets, · ic verse, a pair of birds flanking a fruit basket, traditional bands and borders and an ·ion contained within a leafy cartouche. It closely resembles a sampler made by Jane Taylor in ich we offered in our catalogue, Samplings, vo!. XXXVIII, and offers further information _ .:-:1 the education of Miss Taylor, a native of Chester County. : Anna married Thomas Richards and they remained in Philadelphia where they raised their 10 _re . Anna died in 1865 and her sampler was given to her youngest daughter and then to the -~ · daughter of each generation until 2011. Bartram's Garden, a 45 acre farm, house, museum ;::r en is a National Historic Landmark and the oldest living botanical garden in America. The -:ne Antiques featured this house and grounds on its cover and in an article in its March/April ··ue. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been ,..,:ation mounted and is in a mahogany veneer frame. - er ize: 13W' x 12W'

Frame size: 16" x 15"

Price: $23,000.

izabeth Newsam, Massachusetts, 1753 _ :our favo rite pieces in the _ · on of Historic Deerfield is a lling little canvaswork picture _. :.lary Upelbe in 1767. It is a rivilege to now offer an equally r inary piece, a closely related . le which portrays precisely the ;:ouple in the same pose, on .·- of flowers with huge blossoming -:..: <5rowi ng up the sides. Historic _ r-- eld's example came with a :1ance indicating it was from the --~ I : fam ily of Newburyport, - - husetts and these two pieces have _ .::r association with mid 18th century -: :1 canvaswork pictures. Ladies in : ~ly striped red dresses and the -··i handling of certain flower -- ms would support this connection. _ Lpelbe's work is illustrated on page The Antiques Treasury of miture and Other Decorative Arts at - erthur, Williamsburg, Sturbridge, ~luseum, Cooperstown, Deerfield -... helbume, edited by Alice ~;: ester (E.P. Dutton, 1959).

E e in the fully-worked green sky, "Elizabeth Newsam February 6 1753," this highly significant . pie offers the finest of mid 18th century folk art. Worked in silk and wool on linen canvas, it is in _ - llent condition. It has been conservation mounted into a period frame. m ler size: 12W' x 9%"

Frame size: 15" x 12W'

Price: $48,000.

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Mary Ann Cooley, N. A. Ladd, Instructress, Middletown, Connecticut, 1825 The pictorial samplers of Middletown are icons within the rari fied world of Connecticut needlework. Only a handful is known, all of which are dominated by an arch-top or oval scene solidly stitched with a splendid house and garden vignette; they compare favo rably to the fin est American samplers. This sampler, certainly one of the best of the group with outstanding composition and exemplary needlework throughout, was made by Mary Ann Cooley in 1825 and is the only one to name the teacher . A. Ladd. The large house and dependency building are set within lush gardens and trees, including a trell is covered with grapevines and grape bunches. Details include finely worked windows, doors with sidelights and a low stone wall containing the property. A fine, fully-worked blue sky with scalloped clouds arches above. An unusual and complex border provides an excellent framework for this outstanding sampler. Through extensive research we are fortunate to have come to know much about both samplermaker and instructress, information that adds to this very important sampler. Earl Coo ley (17 9-1869), a farmer and native of Springfield, Massachusetts married Rhoda Graves (1794-1879) of East Haddam, Connecticut in 1810. The Cooley Genealogy, by Mortimer Elwyn Cooley (Tuttle Publishing Company, 1941), informs us that Earl Cooley had removed to Middletown, Connecticut in 1809 and that the nine Cooley children were born there. Mary Ann was their second child, born November 17, 1814 and she worked this sampler when eleven years old in 1825. In 1833 Mary Ann married Albert Goodrich, but she appears in subsequent census records on her own or living witb. her parents . She did n't marry again and died in 1884. The History of Middlesex County, Connecticut (J. B. Beers & Co, 1884) includes mention of a teacher in Middletown, Miss Nancy A. Ladd, in 1828 and we feel certain that she was also the instructress named by Mary Ann Cooley in her stitched inscription. Nancy was born in 1796, the daughter of Deacon Elisha and Tabitha (Strong) Ladd. Elisha was a minuteman at the Lexington Alarm. Nancy would have been 29 in 1825, and in 1831 married Dennis Lee. Worked in silk on linen, the sampler is in excellent condition and has been conservation mounted into a mahogany frame with a gold leaf bead. Sampler size: 18W' x 16 W'

Frame size: 22 W' x 20 W'

Price: $38,000.

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ah Michener, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1792

- ~ - ern Pennsylvania of the 18th

i orial images. - ly defi ned house are flanked by a a gentleman in 1 th century ......._,;;;:.;.,_..~,.. . and the : J_· wro ught border _ ellent proportion. tailed sampler ·-.including _,_.: .. -..... les bi rds, crowns ....:·erisk-like stars were .....--.i:-:o-1 in mirror image -:throughout the _ : e sampler and - ~ ica tio ns of the

ues familiar to _lichener. Many _ ao we owned a r made by Hannah · 1 95 (illustrated in plings, voi. II,) - i ery similar to - - _. · hener example. These two were quite clearly worked under the instruction of the same teacher and their notable similarities include the border, format of the house and lawn and remely high quality of the needlework. Sarah Michener included the lady and gentleman while Pau l did not. Sarah Michener was born in 1781 to Arnold and Martha Michener, members of Abington Monthly Meeting, located in a small town north of Philadelphia, in Montgomery County. Quaker monthly meeting records indicate that the Micheners moved to West Bradford Township, Chester County in 1784; and in May of 1800 Sarah married James Embree, also of West Bradford. They remained there, had seven children and Sarah died in 1843 at age 62. · .·ed in silk on linen, and in excellent condition, it has been conservation mounted in a black ed and molded frame. ler size: 17W' x 13W'

Frame size: 19%" x 15%"

Price: $24,000.

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Deborah Butler, White-Work Sampler, Philadelphia area, 1798 White work samplers, for reasons that are eminently clear, are one of the most desirable of all forms of American schoolgirl needlework. They were produced in the Philadelphia area in the 18th century and the majority of the known examples date from approximately 1763 to the end of the century. This particular technique, called cut work, is a wonderfully refined form of needlework in which embroidery stitches bind a given area, the inside linen is cut away and the void is filled with delicately worked stitches. White work was frequently combined with silk embroidered embellishments as was the case with our stellar sam.pler worked by Deborah Butler in 1798. Sprigs of flowers and sawtooth borders appear along with the inscription, and these elements are found on other whitework samplers (see Elizabeth Yeatman's 1786 white-work sampler illustrated in Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania by Margaret B. Schiffer). Many of the samplermakers were from prominent Quaker families in the Delaware Valley area. We are very pleased to be able to offer this sampler as very few examples of this work come onto the market. It is in overall excellent condition, with two small areas of weakness to the linen along the left edge, and is conservation mounted into a 19th century frame with gi lt liner. Sampler size: 81;.1'' x 8"

Frame size: lO W' x lO W'

Price: $14,000.

Jane Partridge, Boston, Massachusetts, 1774 The samplers of colonial Boston are an extremely significant body of work and the recent focus of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inaugurating their new Art of the Americas Wing. The museum stated that the exhibition would bring together samplers from the 17th century to 1789, creating a survey of the unique and beautiful styles created in the city of Boston during its fo rmative years; indeed the resulting exhibition, a project ten years in the planning stage by the museum's curator, Pamela Parma!, was outstanding. Our 1774 sampler by Jane Partridge is a significant new discovery and a splendid example of this group. Regional characteristics include the large, distinctive flower on a narrow rod that dominates that pictorial register; this was used by samplermakers as early as 1739, when it appeared on Betty Ring's sampler made by Margaret Palfrey of Boston. The use of small animals in a full y-worked landscape setting as well as the black fully-worked background behind bands of lettering is also found on other Boston samplers. Jane's composition and execution render this a sampler of enormous appeal with strong aesthetics. (continued on the next page)

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.ar.e Partridge, Boston, Massachusetts, 1774 (continued) I:O.A...c::....~~::...:

.:ocumentation exists regarding Jane Partridge and family. In 1759 Thaddeus Partridge of Jane Johnson of Boston announced their intention to marry, as published in A Volume of . .~Is Relating to the Early History of Boston 1752 to 1809 (Boston 1903). Jane was born on "'""-~""-r 19. 1760 and on March 31, 1779, five years after she worked her sampler, married William : ;-s; -1840) of Roxbury. Family information tells us much about William Dorr, indicating that :..~ :. was a fife r in a company of minutemen out of Roxbury and accompanied General Benedict - :1 the expedition to Quebec in September of 1775, marching through the Maine wilderness . ..........=. ...-, ...... information denotes that is was during that march that William found an idyllic spot near a : .:--rmed from the Kennebec River, and returned to it in 1788 with his wife Jane, thus founding m oi Hallowell, outside of Augusta. They raised their nine children there and the family ~:z:::li-:d an important part of Hallowell, a small town of great charm, for many generations. Jane _ ~::i: Dorr died in 1849, age 89. !ibo:::=~_- .:..."1d

The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation :nounted and is a maple frame with a cherry bead. Sampler size: 20" x 14W'

Frame size: 24W' x 18%"

Price: $28,000.

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Pamelia Makepeace, Brookfield, Worcester County, MA, 1822 Ten-year-old Pamelia Makepeace featured two lines of a verse on her fine sampler that we find to hold great appeal, "Knowledge and fam e are gaind not by surprise. They that would win must labor for the Prize." The source of this couplet is Noah Webster's The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language for Use of Schools in the Unites States, published in 1812 in Brattleborough, Vermont. While wonderfully apt to the field of schoolgi rl work, this was used only rarely. Pamelia's sampler also presents an excellent pictorial scene of a large three-storey Federal house with trees and a pair of dogs that seem, whimsically, to have stopped short while running towards a tree. The Genealogy of the Makepeace Families in the United States from 1637 to 1857, by William Makepeace (Boston, 1858), indicates that Knight Makepeace and Eunice Newton, married in 1800 in Brookfield, a small town west of Worcester, Massachusetts and Pamelia was born on December 13, 1811. She married Lewis Gleason who was a butcher and merchant in nearby West Brookfield and they had four children born between 1834 and 1844. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted into a molded mahogany frame. Sampler size: 19 W' x 17"

Frame size: 21 W' x 19 W'

Price: $3800.

Sarahanna Smith, Friend's Cove, Bedford County, PA, 1834 Born on March 21, 1822, Sarahanna Smith made this handsome sampler and dated it using traditional Quaker phrasing, "12th month the 23rd 1834." She lived in the small village of Friend's Cove, located in Bedford County, Pennsylvania between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg; her sampler is embellished with many delicate Quaker sampler motifs and designs that were made popular by teachers trained by the Society of Friends. A meandering hillock grounds the bottom of the sampler with stylized willow trees and an endearing cottage nestled into the pine trees. Fine little bowknots initiate the side borders, while birds and baskets of flowers embellish the off-white ground of this appealing sampler. Sarahanna, who used variations of her name such as Sarah Ann and Sarahann, throughout her life, married William Waltman (1819-1908), who was also a Friend's Cove resident, in 1843. The Waltman ancestry was Pennsylvania German and William became a Lutheran minister. After the family headed west, settling in Indiana, William became one of the leading ministers in northern Indiana. Sarahanna and William had two sons and four daughters and they were prominent citizens of the town of Kendallville. Sarahanna died in 1802. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition; it has been conservation mounted and is in a beveled maple frame with a cherry outer bead. Sampler size: 15%" x 20"

Frame size: 19W' x 23 W'

Price: $2700.

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Otilia Ann Carver, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1833

ocumenting rarity of work tate. - \'Orthy sampler, .,. ust brick house, -~~-~ - aarden scene and r e. was worked C{)!d Sarah Otilia Ann Carver and is a recent discovery that contributes nicely to the field of _._. samplers. In regard to Sarah's sampler, Dr. Allen states, "The fact that there are so few --__,.-~.-:: fro m western Maryland makes this Carver sampler a true rarity. Samplers from Frederick _.....__ .....:!_ ·ill generally include a stepped ground and this flat sweep of lawn is distinctive and appealing." · rther noted the appealing composition and vibrant color, as well as the pristine condition of er. uccessful results of the research into the identity of the samplermaker further add to the ::::::u:::-~· o · his splendid sampler. - Hagerstown on March 9, 1825 Sarah Otilia Ann Carver was the daughter of a farmer, Daniel his wife Amelia. Her birth is recorded in Maryland vital records with use of this full and -~----~ name. Daniel Carver was born in 1796 and died in 1872, according to his gravestone at Rose etery in Hagerstown. Sarah was likely their oldest child and her siblings included Maria, -...:..;..u.-.· • John, Rebecca and Agnes. On June 4, 1846, Sarah married another Hagerstown native, Charles Fechtig. His grandfather, Christian Ludwig Fechtig (1759-1834) was a well-regarded ~ ·ern-keeper and overseer of the almshouse, whose early residency in Hagerstown, after his ·--_....,_:ion fro m Germany, is noted in a published history of Washington County. Sadly, Sarah's ied just a few months after they married and then Sarah gave birth to a son, Christian - Fechtig, in 1847. The 1850 census shows the family of Daniel and Amelia Carver residing next Fechtig age 25 and her son C.C., age 3. point prior to 1860, Sarah married John A. Byers, an older, prosperous farmer and they in Hagerstown. 1\venty years later the Byers family household included Sarah's mother · . a widow, and Sarah's youngest sister, Agnes Carver. pier was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation and is in a mahogany and maple cornerblock frame . ...;;t;.......,.JII <CT

ize: 16" x 171.4''

Frame size: 191.4'' x 20 W'

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Price: $27,000.

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Elizabeth Woodwell Hunt, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1807 The pictorial samplers worked in Newbury and Newburyport form one of the most appealing groups worked in Massachusetts. Certain motifs and carefully composed designs serve as the visual clues that identify these samplers, and one of the most important of these is the blue two-handled vase filled with a fine assortment of flowers which was used continuously from the middle of the 18th century until the early 19th century. Betty Ring, in vol. I of Girlhood Embroidery, includes much information about these samplers and the girls who made them. Elizabeth Woodwell Hunt, a young girl who descended from early Massachusetts families , worked this charming sampler, a splendid example from this group, in 1807. As was the traditional within this group, Elizabeth stitched her birth date, March 27, 1797, onto her needlework along with the fact that she was 10 years of age when she made it. Her parents were Nathaniel Hunt (17701842) and Mercy Woodwell Hunt (1777-1849); the Hunt family descended from Edmund Hunt who came from England in the early 1630s as part of the Great Migration. Elizabeth 's maternal ancestors in America began with Matthew Woodwell who was living in Salem, Massachusetts by 1660. Elizabeth was the first of th irteen children, all of whom lived to adulthood. In 1817 Elizabeth married David Ayer Hughes and they became the parents of three children born between 1818 and 1823. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservati on mounted and is in a beveled cherry frame with a maple bead. Sampler size: lO W' x 8"

Frame size: 13%" x lEi"

Price: $5800.

Elizabeth Jacoby, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832 Large, pictorial samplers were made in the Philadelphia area in the 1820s and 30s, freq uently featuring a fine house and stepped-terrace lawn scene. A very few of these offer a fresh, folky presence that is immediately appealing; the animals are more sprightly, the palette more lively and in the overall a more direct expression is presented. Elizabeth Jacoby made such a samp ler in 1832 with a fine brick house with a lady in the doorway, a prancing deer and many other animals, birds, flowers and trees. The free-form nature of this sampler is consistent throughout. Elizabeth stitched the initials of her parents, EJ and MJ, in white silk onto the matching baskets flanking the side willow tree on her sampler, thus leading us to a specific identification of her. She was the daughter of Pennsylvania Germans, Martin and Elizabeth Jacoby, who were residents, sequentially, of Germantown and Northern Liberties, two neighborhoods in the northern part of Philadelphia that were populated with those who shared this background and culture. Martin Jacoby (1793-1856) was a house carpenter and cabinetmaker and he married Elizabeth Hocker (1794-1867) on December 7, 1817 at St. Michael's Evangelical German Lutheran Church in Germantown. Martin was the great grandson of Christopher Jacoby who sailed to Philadelphia on a ship named The Friendship in 1738, and settled in Germantown. Born circa 1819, Elizabeth was the eldest of their ten children. (continued on the next page)

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e 26, Elizabeth married Samuel Keel in Germantown. He was 35 years of age, a .,. nd hoemaker, and a young widower. We know from archived descriptions that he ro bust, standing "5 feet 5 inches tall and ... of light complexion and blue eyes." _ ... ed by the 1850 census taker, Elizabeth and Samuel and their first two young next door to her parents. Their household continued to grow as they had three :ren by 1860.

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_ - ancial success that Samuel seemed to have enjoyed disappeared, perhaps due to the !C.Sh of 1857, which caused many businesses across the country to suffer reversals . In ~ ~ i ted at Germantown for three years in the Army, fighting in the Civil War as a

roperty, ...,...~.~: . by the ~ er hands, _,: fo r many rovide for ren and for Âˇ Her sister _ .. ~ R. (Jacoby) ; :e tifi ed in ~1rs. Elizabeth M. Keel has from childhood up to the present time "always borne an hable Character during the life of her Husband and since that time, and she is entitled ~ - eem and Respect of all for the noble manner in which she acquitted herself in working ...... o keep her Husband from filling a Pauper's Grave." Samuel is buried in Haines Street i t Church graveyard, Germantown, Pennsylvania. ion application was finally approved in early 1891 and she received $8.00 per month until _ th. Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Keel died September 11, 1899, aged 83 years. Her funeral - l fro m her son's home in Germantown. She is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. ~Âˇed

pier was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition; it has been conservation and is in a fine maple and cherry cornerblock frame.

- : er size: 20 W' x 21 W'

Frame size: 25" x 26"

Price: $18,500.

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Lucy Parkhurst Warren, Jay, Franklin County, Maine, 1810 A very small proportion of samplers were worked on green Iinsey-woolsey, a fabric that combines linen and wool and which forms an outstanding ground color for the needlework. This is a fine, small sampler signed, "Lucy P. Warren is my name America is my nation Jay is my dwelling place and Christ is my salvation LPW her sampler age 10 July 26 1810." Jay is a small town northwest of Augusta, Maine and Lucy's family resided there for many generations.

Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of Watertown, Massachusetts ... by Henry Bond (Boston 1860), indicates that the Warren family began in 1630 when John Warren came to America, settling in Watertown. His great great grandson, Moses Warren (1759-1869) served in the Revolutionary War and later removed to Jay, Maine. Lucy Parkhurst Warren was born February 27, 1800 to Moses and Elinor (White) Warren; she was named for her maternal aunt, Lucy Parkhurst who also lived in Jay. In 1818 she married Rev. William Wyman (1796-1869), a Baptist clergyman, also of Maine. They remained in Maine and became the parents of 6 children between 1819 and 1836. Lucy died in 1870. The narrow horizontal bands and delightful little motifs including hearts, diamonds, birds and a house decorate the sampler nicely. Worked in silk on Iinsey-woolsey the sampler is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted into a 19th century gold leaf frame. Sampler size: 12W' x 7W'

Frame size: 15W' x lOW'

Price: $4800.

Nye Family Sampler, Pennsylvania, circa 1835 This appealing and unusual sampler features alphabets, family names, two houses and three tall branches of berries. All of these elements were worked into a pleasing horizontal format by the samplermaker who was undoubtedly a member of the Nye family, most likely living in Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania where the family was recorded by census records. Also mentioned on the sampler are a few Sprechers and a Uhler, possibly relatives or friends in this Pennsylvania German community, west of Reading. While many samplermakers focused on family members and houses, we rarely find the product so delightfully folky and eccentric. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition, conservation mounted into a molded frame. Sampler size: 8" x 17" Frame size: 11 W' x 20W' Price: $2450.

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...., . . ,_. _1_ia Garcia, Spain or Mexico, 1867

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Hispanic Society of America, located in New York, held an exhibition entitled "Learning · :::mbroidery: Nineteenth Century Spanish Samplers." From the earliest sampler in their ~--~~·-···· .•:orked in 1834, to the later examples, it was clear that vivid coloration, highly decorative -.: orders and extremely fine workmanship typify Spanish and Spanish Colonial samplers. .... ands of intricate drawnwork were featured on some of the finest Spanish samplers and _J o the needlework on this splendid example, worked by Abundia Garcia in 1867. : us of this sampler is three people in flamboyant -:-he men's garb seems Turkish in style, certainly of · ·luence. Each is holding a flower up to a swallow- .:rawing the eye into an arch over the woman who : in full, billowing skirts. Above her the many silver ~rro un d leafy branches in a heart-like formation, i· appear to be a ceremonial scene. Abundia's urrounds the group and translates to: "This made by Abundia Garcia with the tutelage of :..... J. Finished on the day March 30 1867."

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:.: intermingle with blocks of drawnwork imagery and - rc ·eali ng Miss Garcia's truly skilled hand. Another rative scene with a man, woman and a large deer was stitched along the right edge of the _ . ·orked in silk on linen, this is in excellent condition, and has been conservation mounted ogany molded frame. : ize: 19 W' x 16"

Frame size: 20 W' x 18"

Price: $6200.

Sibyllah Warner, Evesham, Burlington County, NJ, 1807 Worked in 1807 by 22-year-old Sibyllah Warner, this very handsome and beautifully stitched sampler is clearly the result of a practiced hand. Alphabets, a traditional, moralistic verse, potted flowers, queen's-stitched stars, hearts and strawberries are all delicately wrought and surrounded by an outstanding border, which shares regional characteristics with other Burlington County samplers. The Quaker-phrased inscription, "Sibyllah Warner was born the 27th of the 1 month 1785" confirms her birth date and the initials, SW, and the year 1807 below indicate when the sampler was made. Samuel Warner and Hepzibah Matlack married in 1784 in Evesham, Burlington County and their eldest child, Sibyllah was born in 1785. It's possible that she was a teacher of needlework in 1807 as she was older than the average student. A few years later she married a farmer, Amos Sharp, also from an early Quaker family of Burlington County, and they remained in the area where their five sons and one daughter were born. By 1860, the Sharps resided in nearby Lumberton with family members. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted and is in a mahogany veneer frame. Sampler size: 17" square

Frame size: 21" square

Price: $5200.

Rowson School Silk Embroidery, Nickerson Family, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1815 "Boston's most celebrated girls' school of the Federal period was opened in 1797 by Susanna Haswell Rowson, an English-born novelist, playwright, and actress who performed with her husband in several American cities before retiring from the stage at age thirty-five. Despite the disadvantage of a recent career in the theatre, this clever, hard-working woman quickly gained respect as a teacher, and her school was well patronized until her retirement in 1822," states Betty Ring as she commences several pages regarding the renowned silk embroideries worked under the instruction of Mrs. Rowson in Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850 (Knopf 1993). We are pleased to be able to offer an exemplary silk embroidery worked at this school, circa 1815. It is referenced by Betty Ring in the caption of her figure 98 (in the collection of the Concord Museum), which illustrates a remarkably similar example. Our embroidery was worked by a member of the Nickerson family of Provincetown, Massachusetts and is an outstanding piece from the standpoint of its aesthetics, the quality of the needlework and the condition. Memorialized are three people: sisters, Mary L. Nickerson Train, who died in 1810 at age 25 and Betsy Nickerson Smalley who died in 1802 at age 36 and Capt. Nathan Nickerson who died in 1809 at age 23. Mary and Betsy were daughters of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (continued on the next page)

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.\"ickerson of Provincetown and Truro, on Cape Cod. The embroiderer may have been another 5S:i'r or a niece, who would have attended the Rowson School as a boarding student. Much information ~rJing this family is available in The Nickerson Family: the Descendants ofWJlliam Nickerson 1604, rrrst: Settler of Chatham, Massachusetts Part II (published by the Nickerson Family Association). - . _ .\"athan Nickerson, while not a brother, was certainly a relative. The urn that surmounts the tomb ~ -messed are the dead that die in the Lord," and the entire inscription was worked in watercolor :a::::. as was the face, chest and arms of the mourner and the water and sky of the landscape. :.;..e"a--.5 1

::-~-son School silk embroideries are as highly regarded as was Susanna Rowson herself. Betty Ring -â&#x20AC;˘:U:S that when she died on March 2, 1824, she was eulogized in Boston newspapers to an unusual ~nt for a woman of this period. While many instructresses have become well known because of recent -:xarch and scholarly writings, Mrs. Rowson received the recognition she deserved during her lifetime. :-:-~

silk embroidery was worked in silk and watercolor on silk and is in excellent condition, having conservation mounted. The eglomise glass is a later replacement and the fine gold leaf frame is :..-:tnal. Sight size: 18" x 12 W' Frame size: 24 W' x 18%" Price: $16,500 .

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Catharine Finney Loughead, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1824 This highly appealing Philadelphia sampler, featuring an exceptional house and lawn scene, was stitched by Catharine Finney Loughead in 1824. The daughter of Thomas Loughead, Captain of the schooner "Yeatman", and his wife Mary Margaret (Troutwine) Loughead, Catharine was born circa 1824, likely the youngest of their six children. She was named for her paternal grandmother, Catharine Finney who was born in 1734 in Chester County; her father; Lazarus Finney had been born in Ireland in 1702, and was the owner of the first tavern at New London Crossroads in Chester County. The samplermaker's parents were married in 1797 at the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. Her paternal grandfather, James Loughead had served as dispatch bearer and aide to Gen. Washington . From 1771 to 1785 he held the position of Paymaster of the Militia of the City and the Liberties of Philadelphia. Her maternal grandfather was William Troutwine, who served at a much lower level in the Revolutionary War, but nonetheless, was a "Drum and Fifer" according to early records. Catharine's work is certainly part of the group, although later in date and with a folkier quality, which Betty Ring brands "Samplers with Mansions and Terraced Gardens," in Girlhood Embroidery, vol. II. Several animals and four people animate the landscape. A large house with a double path leading up to a grand white framed doorway encloses a woman standing at the top of the steps with hand on hip and holding a blue reticule in the other. To the right, another woman sits under the shade of a tree with a deer prancing toward her. Sloping away from the house to the left stands a couple; the woman actively feeding chickens, some already fed . The man standing at her side with a cane, blue jacket and hat is an image found on many Philadelphia samplers from this group. Other elements classifying this sampler as part of the same group are the little black dog with curled tail, cow with horns, the large butterfly, the tree on the right with the lineardepicted fronds, as well as the large images of flowering plants in double-handled, patterned baskets. The interesting use of compartmentalization helps add structure to the otherwise folky, organic imagery. Miss Loughead stitched her sampler with silk on linen, and it remains in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted and in a cherry and figured maple frame. Sampler size: 16W' x 20W'

Frame size: 20W' x 24W'

Price: $26,000.

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..... -~·~ r Motif and Medallion Sampler, Initialed RHS, PA, 1808 The most interesting of the Quaker sampler patterns that became popular in the early 19th century are the wonderful geometric medallions that were first used at Ackworth School in Yorkshire, England and then at Westtown School, which was established in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1799. Nine of these appear in half medallion form, along with a strong assortment of the more wellknown Quaker designs and motifs, the baskets, flower branches, pairs of birds, etc., on this excellent sampler made in 1808. The overall composition is exceptional and the needlework is consistently good throughout. -~'-

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the maker, RHS, it is definitely American and may well have been worked at Westtown specific attribution is difficult. The great many other sets of initials are likely those of the ily members and classmates. Worked in silk on linen, the sampler is in excellent and has been conservation mounted into a molded, painted frame.

_ -ize: lO W' x 16W'

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Frame size: 12W' x 18W'

Price: $2700.

Hemenway, Pepperell, Massachusetts, 1835

of Pepperell, northwest of Boston near the New Hampshire border, was formed from small in Groton and nearby farms and river crossings in the 1720s and 1730s; it became a -_ ·own in 1753. The New England Gazetteer of 1839 describes Pepperell as "a very pleasant --· a good soil and handsome orchards." This large, handsome sampler is signed by its maker, _ ed the place name as well: "Wrought • Hemenway aged 11 years Pepperrell '":" 1 35." She was born on May 24, 1822 and Indiana (Fitch) Hemenway who ·ed in Groton in 1821. Given the date pier, we can assume that Eliza began 11 and worked on it over a period of ar-. In 1849 Eliza married another II resi dent, shoemaker David Walker -- 1 11 -1880). Their only child, a son, ~ Jewett, was born in 1855 and Eliza died __ --: all th ree family members are buried in :"ori c Pepperell Cemetery. _ r

lassie renditions of the alphabet are ra ed by narrow bands of assorted stitches and framed with an exceptionally well-worked wide _ r of flow er blossoms and two-toned leaves on thorny vines. A sawtooth outer edge and four little "": of flowe rs coming from the corners of the sawtooth border make a nice addition to the overall -lO ition. - _ sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation _ ed and is in a beveled cherry frame with a maple beaded edge. ler size: 16W' x 22"

Frame size: 20W' x 26"

Price: $4800 .

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Anne Shuffrey, England, 1837 English schoolgirls worked some highly unusual puzzle samplers and this is an exceptional example. In his book Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1892), William S. Walsh uses this precise compsoition as an example in the section entitled "Emblematic, Figurate, or Shaped Poems." Mr. Walsh writes "... the structure of the verse, the metre, and the rhythm indicate that it is not earlier than the last half of the seventeenth century, and may be much more recent." He then fco-.kt........ .....,._._ goes on to give a detailed explanation of 'r.w.._,p..-... .... ...,.. ... ...... e.......w. ........... _,. the work. The large center cross J..-. OGOI>XYGOD • ..,.._..,.. represents our Savior. INRI, meaning ..._......,... .. w ... u.Tx.,y, AlitA ..,,_..R '"""'.-. Jesus Nazarenus Rex Judaeorum, is l.onlrc__.. TIM written at the top of the cross and is ~ c. .... .... $ /!i. ~ ... •• .. w ... s .,....._. .. ,...,w.. found on many samplers. Within this u. .....,. ........, .. 't' ... . s. -.<W. u .. • , cross is our Savior's expression. The two ... ,.., ...... .. ....... • 0 ..-.v.-..e.,, ... ,.... smaller crosses represent the thieves; "' r .-.... ,........ .......... owithin them are a prayer and a saying of • 1\ ...- ..... ., s .... . . l llliCC c-. r ..,...,._.. the thieves. u. uftl

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The entire sampler is one long verse which is read across and through the crosses, much like a crossword puzzle of today. The first line, for example, reads "Behold oh God in rivers of my tears," incorporating words/lettering inside and outside each cross. The messages within each cross also read vertically. We have only known of one other sampler presenting this subject and it is indeed, a curious piece, beautifully executed with great precision. The border has been backed with another piece of fabric giving it a darker ground for the vibrant flowering vines, which frames the sampler on all four sides. Worked in silk on wool, Anne's sampler is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted and in a beveled figured maple frame. Sampler size: 171;4'' x 19"

Frame size: 21" x 22%"

Price: $3800.

Miniature Biblical Verse Sampler, England, late 18th century The needleworker responsible for this extraordinary sampler worked it on such a minute scale that we can safely state that we have never previously come across a comparable example. Measuring only 31;4'' x 2W' (excluding the braid) this little gem clearly exhibits the competence of a highly practiced hand. Biblical passages became a common subject for 18th century schoolgirl samplermakers, lessons in both morals and needle arts could then be combined. Pamela A. Parma! observes, in Samplers from A to Z (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2000), that the inclusion of Bible verses and moral sayings onto British samplers increased during the 18th century and that memorization of biblical verse provided another facet to the curriculum of school for young ladies. Worked in silk on linen with its original silk braid and tassels it is in excellent condition, conservation mounted into a period frame. Sampler size: 31;4'' x 2W'

Frame size: 7%" x 6W'

Price: $2200.

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-c:-2in architectural s add subtle but :r:::;-xtant elements to ::--e: ..:omposition: the •·..:c front steps :r: .-:ding perspective, ::--..: graphic fence, -t';'C.ated as a widow's .~;.. between the ~..:;..ed chimneys and ::--.:: ::ntels above each .-~.::"'ow. The deep teal ~an background -_-: -tions as a lawn initially and then extends upwards, replaced at the top of the composition by a :-.:...c swath of sky. The deer, dogs, flowers, berries, trees, etc. provide great countpart to the house. -\ s:-:1al l styl ized flower in the center of the lawn was worked in metallic threads, an interesting ~:tion to the tent stitches used throughout. ..::~e.._ ;

-\ ~~i ly notation that descended with this piece indicates that it was worked in Providence, Rhode :.::and within the Cooke and Baker families that came from Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Indeed, -c..:ords in The Rhode Island Historical Society indicate that John Baker was born in England in :ill and by 1654 was in Woburn, Massachusetts having come to American as part of the Great ~..:gration during the 1630s and 1640s, when more than 13,000 people came to the colony of ~..;:.ssachuse tts from England. The Baker family settled in Rehoboth and then Rhode Island by the ~:y 18th century. ··C·rked in wool and metallic threads on linen, it is in excellent with some very minor loss. It has been ::.r.ser\"ation mounted into its original black painted and molded frame with its original backboard. S.::..:npler size: 8W' x 6W'

Frame size: lO W' x 814''

Price: $12,000 .

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Betty Howson, England, 1803

English samplers tend to be much more structured and symmetrically composed than American ones, but we occasionally come across those that defy that tradition. Betty Howson worked this wonderfully folky sampler in 1803 in England. The large scene has great color and na'lve charm, though skillfully executed. There is indeed symmetry on Betty's sampler; noteworthy, the gentleman walking the dog is offset by the tall monument, likely a memorial. Dimensional tassel-like flowers fleck the lawn and flank the monument. The stone double-chimney house, worked in lustrous silk, has a handsome fanlight over the door and a small dependency building on its side. A walkway leads to a finely worked fence and gate with flowering plants and trees. Along with the alphabets, Miss Howson stitched the names of her parents, Robert and Mary, the initials AS, MH and AH; and after her inscription is likely the name of her teacher, Hannah Gillespie. Vining bands surround each set of family names and initials, and other initials fill space in the house and lawn scene, as well. A complex border frames the work on all four sides. Because of the many initials that pepper her sampler, we have been able to identify Betty and many of her family members. Betty was born to Robert and Mary (Stackhouse) Howson of Horton In Riblesdale, Yorkshire in 1789, and died young just four years after making this sampler, in 1807 when she was 18 years old.

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Stitched in silk on wool, the sampler is in excellent condition, with a secured area of weakness in the lower left corner. It has been conservation mounted and in a beveled grain-painted frame. Sampler size: 18" x 20W'

Frame size: 21" x 23W'

Price: $6200.

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arrett, Hocking School, Essex, England, 1802 piers can present stunning a fres h, crisp aesthetic. Their ~"<!demonstrating their newly-_ highly technical skill of creating :e patterns that would be _ _ repai r valuable silk fabrics. The _ _ -· ool, in Essex, approximately 40 r- east of London, is well-known to - Hectors for the darning samplers re in the several years at the end - and beginning of the 19th - Averi l Colby's Samplers (London, i hed a Socking School darning _" _"'"__• ~de in 1799 by Susanna Petit :2~ . which is strikingly similar to A.: n Garrett. ~

·eval times, cloth has been ·n Socking and in the 17th and 18th ..._..... --.....,_,_ Huguenot artisans were weaving .- · ric there. While darning samplers " e elsewhere in England as well as in Holland, those few known examples created at the Socking are of a higher quality than many others. _pier was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation _ and is in a molded and painted frame. Frame size: 17" square

Price: $4200 .

. W. Whiting, Hingham, Massachusetts, 1812 _earing little sampler, this was made by 13-year-old .-ng Whiting who lived in Hingham, a town south -·on on Massachusetts Bay. On it she memorialized _- er: "My Papa Enoch Whiting died Dec the 30th . dd 48 years and 3 days." Samplers provided an nity for the expression of personal sentiments and ··ho had lost her father just months prior, inscribed - . as well as her birth date, in her stitching. Mary - e - th child of 11 born to Enoch and Martha · 6. In 1823 Mary married Jonathan Derby Pratt, a ::1aker, of nearby Weymouth. They had 4 children emained in Weymouth; Mary died in 1885 . ... embellished her sampler with four delicate leafy or ring plants along the lower register. Along with ets a large rendition of vowels and three zigzag ot line-end designs provide further decoration. A ·ooth border edges the sampler on three sides with _ -nwork appearing at the outer edge. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in very good ~ _..ition with one area of weakness to the linen. It has been conservation mounted and is in a black ed and painted frame . . pier size: lUi" x 10%''

Frame size: 14W' x 13W'

Price: $2400.

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Nancy Emerson, Reading, Massachusetts, 1807 Worked by 12 year old Nancy Emerson of Reading, a small town north of Boston, this sampler offers an interesting neoclassical composition, boldly rendered. Columns surmounted by an archway were an important feature of American architecture in the new Republic and we have seen this reflected in some of the fine samplers worked in New England. We find particular appeal in Nancy's combination of this strong design with her quirky little scene of a cottage and trees on a broad lawn, layered over chevrons and patterned blocks. A solidly stitched border of diamonds and triangles frames the sampler very well and, of course, the graphic color palette used throughout adds to the sampler's visual success. Born in 1794 to Reading native, James Emerson, Sr. and his wife, Abigail (Rayner) Emerson of Charlestown, Nancy was their fourth child. The Ipswich Ernersons AD 1636-1900, by Benjamin Kendall Emerson (Boston 1900), states that James Emerson (1759-1839) "was a soldier of the Revolution from 1778 to 1780, and he was described on the muster roll as of a ruddy complexion, and five feet seven inches in stature." Nancy died in 1815, aged approximately 21. Marriage intentions to Timothy Burnham were published, however, she died unmarried. This sampler descended along with another sampler, that made by Lois Burnham in 1803, which we offer on the facing page. The family histories of the makers of these two samplers are intertwined interestingly, as Nancy oldest brother, James Emerson, Jr. (b.l789) married the older sister of Timothy, Lois Burnham. Timothy died in 1816 and the early deaths of both Nancy and her intended must have been tragic for the two families. Nancy's sampler must have given to her sister-in-law and we can surmise that the two young women were close. The verse, worked within the sawtooth archway, is entitled "Maria" and taken from Laurence Sterne's very popular novel, A Sentimental Journey, of the period. Worked in silk on linen, the sampler is in excellent condition and has been conservation mounted into an early 19th century frame. Sampler size: 16" x 12W'

Frame size: 18%" x 15"

Price: $6800.

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- Bumham, Lynnfield, Massachusetts, 1803

mham's sampler is a lovely example in its own right, but made even more interesting because lationship to the sampler worked by Nancy Emerson, offered on the prior page. Lois Burnham y Emerson became sisters-in-law, as Lois married Nancy's older brother, James Emerson, Jr. adi ng, a town adjacent to Lynnfield.

:a fin ely made sampler which showcases Lois's talents; of particular note is the stylized pine tree -

.-een the two checkerboard baskets filled with free-form flower arrangements, worked entirely i e beautifully in the queen's-stitch. The border is stitched with flowers , buds and leaves on a ine that emanates from a basket at th e center of the bottom but also shows the process that ....:ed by many samplermakers as the inked drawing is visible on the linen. ugh te r of Col. Joshua and Lois (Bryant) Burnham, Lois was born on December 24, 1790. She in 1814 and they became the parents of at least one child, a son, James Emerson born in 1821. ation is published in the Emerson genealogy, The Ipswich Emersons AD 1636-1900 by Benjamin Kendall Emerson (Boston, 1900). The 1850 census of South Reading, Massachusetts shows the family of Lois and James, a prosperous farner. The samplers made by Lois and Nancy descended together, and in 1976 were owned by a family member who had them documented by the nearby Wakefield Historical Society. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is on excellent condition; it has been conservation mounted into a 19th century gold leaf frame .

mple r size: 12" x 15%"

Frame size: 15W' x 19"

Price: $5200.

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Mary J. Greenfield Smith, The Sisters of Providence School, Mrican American, Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1843 A small and highly important group of samplers and woolwork pictures was made by girls who were students at the schools of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, an African American convent in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Gloria S. Allen, in her scholarly book, A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738 - 1860 (Maryland Historical Society 2007), writes, "In the years leading up to the Civil War, Baltimore, a middle ground between the commercial free-labor North and the agrarian slave-holding South, became a magnet for free people of color. Early church-connected efforts by African Americans in support of private female education gave young girls the opportunity to improve their situation in life. Although they came from modest circumstances, a number of them acquired needle skills and worked samplers that were equivalent in style and expertise to those worked in the most fashionable schools in Maryland. The needlework instruction offered at schools sponsored by the Oblate Sisters of Providence went beyond the utilitarian hemming and marking of linens required by servants, and included embroidery, a pastime of accomplished white women." Signed along the bottom, "Mary J Greenfield Smith Worked at The Sisters of Providence School 184_," this is greatly similar to two pieces owned by the Oblate Sisters, one of which was made in 1843 by Harriet Cooper. Dr. Allen states, "Harriet Cooper and an unidentified student worked compositions in wool cross stitches on canvas from the same needlework pattern around 1843. Their architectural designs feature a two-story, eleven-bay building with a classical portico and a balustrade topped with urns of flowers that is vaguely reminiscent of a Palladian villa. The building is flanked by an iron fence and cypress trees and approached by a wide Jane bordered by a progression of flowerfilled urns. A man and a woman stroll up the lane while a child frolics with a dog." Mary J. Greenfield Smith made a substantially larger version, fully worked and with greater development to the composition. Four soaring birds fill the sky and two fountains as well as a row of flowering plants embellish the lawns. Mary was born circa 1829, the daughter of Peter M. Smith (born in Virginia, circa 1802) and his wife, Maria G. Smith (born in Maryland, circa 1802). This family appears in the 1840 census, as "Free Colored Persons" residing in Baltimore's 9th ward. In 1850, Mary J. G. Smith, age 21, was Jiving with her parents and three siblings; her father listed his occupation as a waiter and they lived in the 15th ward nearby the Sisters of Providence School, which was located at Park and Richmond Streets in northwest Baltimore. The majority of the work was done in wool and some of the wool around the edges has suffered from moth damage. The lettering was all accomplished in silk and the final digit, likely 3, has disappeared. It has been conservation mounted and is in a molded and painted frame. Sight size: 15" x 24W'

Frame size: 17W' x 26%"

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ise Dumet, San Jose, California, 1876 --c :

-_:-:-~ia Gold Rush, which began in 1848, convinced a record number of French immigrants to

-_..:. ----= -=- .·:ay to the United States. About 30,000 people disembarked between 1849 and 1851, 20,000 .r- --; -_1 51. Unfortunately, few of these -- ~-..:.:::.s e\'er found the riches they were _-; ·..,~'1ile the gold rush might have been , :_ . -? ~eason for French families to plant ..: - :: ~e\\' country, France's political - ~ . -- '' did nothing to dissuade them.

·-- -;, :_;. _ ose French emigrants who chose · .·:-ere forced to - leave for economic or :_ ~.::.. reasons was the August Dumet ::..- . _.;:Jgust (b. circa 1837), his wife, Marie - ~ ..~ . and their daughter Louise (b. 1863) _- -:.: : :-~ the United States sometime in -.-- .!. _·ear later a son, August was born. By _-..: :..:-:-.c the family had settled in San Jose, - -_-_J: San Francisco, California. A second - - :.. .-:Jis Marion, was born in 1875, and the ::..- _. ·.\·as documented in the 1870 and 1880 .:-~...s records, living in San Jose with -._;...s:·s occupation listed as a laundryman. --- _:-__ the other immigrant groups to -..-::: -: :n San Jose was a congregation of : -- _:::1 Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Notre _ '-:-..:: de ~amur, which was founded in :- -:_.::e in 1804. The sisters were called to :::.:::.:<ish a school, which followed the European model: a day school for the poor and a boarding ,.:-_:_ I for paying students (ultimately a college was also built). The doors of this new educational : ::.:::.:-lishment were opened on August 4, 1851. It is highly possible that August and Marie sent Louise : ::Ce school of the Sisters of Notre Dame. :- : "'76, 11-year-old Louise Dumet made a sampler which is traditional in its composition, with ::.;:-~abets, animals, floral motifs and inscriptions, but which also reflects the prevailing Victorian ~-::-.sibility. The sampler is signed, "1876 San Jose, Cal Louise Dumet," and in the lower corners, _::_ · ise honors her parents: Papa and Maman, in their native language. Catholic imagery is included : .:.::h as the heart/cross/anchor motif which symbolizes faith/hope/love. Certainly the Sisters of Notre ~::me would likely have instructed their students to include religious elements on their samplers, and :..:-.ey also may well have included instruction in French . .-'-.:though Marie, August, Jr., and Louis Marion Dumet appear in census records for 1900- and the s ns in later records - evidence for Louisa's life is elusive after 1880. Perhaps she joined her teachers' Jrder when she turned eighteen. A 1930 census entry introduces an intriguing possibility: St. Anne's -onvent in San Francisco at Haight and Laguna Streets included within its residents a Sister MarieLouise, born circa 1864 in France, as were her parents. The Dumet family's relationship to the Catholic Church would certainly support this likelihood. alifornia samplers are extremely rare; indeed only a handful is known. The sampler was worked in \·ool and silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted and is in its original walnut frame with a gilt liner. Sampler size: 29" x 23"

Frame size: 32W' x 26W'

Price: $16,000.

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Sarah Shields, New Castle County, Delaware, circa 1820-25 The maker of this handsome sampler, Sarah Shields, included many excellent Quaker motifs, alphabets and a long listing of many family initials; it is these initials that allowed for specific identification of Sarah and her family. Sarah's parents were Benoni Shields and Lydia Woodward Shields who were residents of New Castle County, Delaware by 1810 where they appear in the 1810 and 1820 census records living in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County. Sarah was born in 1808, the third of their children; her siblings, born between 1804 and 1822, were William, James, Eli, Mary, Eleanor, Thomas, Alice and Lydia. Other family initials are likely those of Sarah's maternal grandparents, EW and AW, and some other relatives, JQ and MQ, whose surname was Quaintance. In 1829 the family removed to Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio where they became pioneer settlers of that area. Born in 1808, Sarah would have made this sampler when she was most likely between 12 and 15 years of age. In 1828 she married Joseph Davis Baldwin, born 1801 and the son of George Baldwin and Mary Hannum Baldwin (see Genealogy of the Hannum Family, West Chester, 1911) . Joseph was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, adjacent to New Castle, Delaware and the couple seems to have accompanied the Shields family in their relocation to Ohio. Sarah and Joseph became the parents of Thomas, Benoni, George Washington and William, born between 1832 and 1842 in Ohio. Sarah died in 1844 in Belmont County, Ohio and is buried at the Harrisville Cemetery there. Worked in linen on linen, the sampler is in excellent condition and has been conservation mounted into a beveled cherry frame with a black outer bead. Sight size: 17W' x 14W'

Frame size: 21 W' x 18W'

Price: $3200.

Sarah L. Poag, Chesterville Academy, Chester, South Carolina, 1834 Schoolgirl samplers made in the Deep South are extremely rare and it is our pleasure to offer this newly discovered example, which is particularly well-documented. It was made by Sarah L. Poag at Chesterville Academy in 1834 and presents a finely worked pictorial scene of a three-storey house or church, a classical open-air rotunda, three figures, two ducks and a dog. The unusual border, formed of two-toned leaves and berries, frames it well. Sarah Lucretia Poag was born in 1819, in the town of Chester, Chester County, South Carolina, north of Columbia. At her baptism on May 30 of that year, she was officially welcomed into the tightly-knit Scots-Irish community whose religious anchor was the local Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church. Her parentage was impressive. At the age of two, her father, John Poage (1784- 1863), had emigrated with his parents and two brothers from Antrim, Ireland, to York District, South Carolina. By 1820, he was a successful Chester farmer with a wife, four children, and nine enslaved workers. Sarah's mother, Hannah McClure Poage (1791-1830), was born into another Chester farming family whose financial success allowed them to own house slaves, as well as enslaved field hands. Sarah's grandfather, Hugh McClure (1760-1802), was a local hero, having served as a patriot in the Revolutionary War. (continued on the next page)

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L. Poag, Chesterville Academy, SC,

1834~ (continued)

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County's name was a legacy from whites to settle in this piedmont .-a. beginning in about 1755. Scots-Irish Chester County, Pennsylvania, were ' by their brethren from Virginia as _ -the migration south from '"""""'r-oo.'":lvania on the Great Wagon Road. ff trans-Atlantic immigrants traveled ~ to Chester from their port-of-arrival it Clarleston. A county seat was ished by 1785. Fifteen years later - in --! - Chester town comprised about - __.houses; by the time of Sarah's birth, â&#x20AC;˘own could boast over fifty. This ~th had been supported by the local international markets for the area's major agricultural products: short le cotton and corn. - 1818, the year before Sarah's birth, several of the town's prominent men had incorporated the ,_Ji!Sterville Academy Society (it would renew its incorporation twenty-one years later, for another een years). Sarah attended the Chesterville Academy in 1834 and worked this highly developed and x:_. .ish pictorial sampler while there, dating it December 1. This is the only known sampler from that sdlool. Currently, little more is known about this Society or the institutions it supported but it is clear :!'..at the Society and its schools (one for boys existed as well) were firmly established as part of the solid raJ center of this area. The schools received support from both the Baptist and Presbyterian :::nurches. The large building, with two crosses on its roof, depicted on the sampler may have been the s.::hool house.

:..'1 1839, at age 20, Sarah married William Linn Lewis (1808- 1895). Born in Chester and a member of ~

Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church, William was educated at several schools in Chester County. In ut 1829, at the age of twenty-one, he began teaching at an academy in the nearby town of Providence, South Carolina. A year later he moved to Alabama and settled in Perry County, where he taught fo r a time. He then returned to Chester. It is not known whether William taught at the hesterville Academy - where he might have renewed an acquaintance with Sarah - but on January 3, 1839, the two were wed. They moved to Talladega County, Alabama, where William again devoted imself professionally to the field of education. He served as county superintendent of education for many years and information about his life is included in History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, vol 4 (Chicago, 1821). Sarah and William had two boys, Robert, born 1840 and John, born 1842 and a girl Mary, born 1845. Sarah died (perhaps in childbirth) in 1847; she was about twenty-eight years old. In 1840, William remarried; his new wife, Esther Adams, was also from Chester, South Carolina. William and Esther named their firstborn Sarah - a name that hints at William's enduring fondness for his first wife. ~oth ing is currently known about the lives of William and Sarah's son Robert and daughter Mary; but their son John enlisted in the Alabama infantry. He was killed on September 17, 1862, in the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War: the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam). The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in very good condition. As is frequently the case with Southern samplers, it has survived with some loss and weakness. Conservation has stabilized the sampler well and it is now in a molded and painted frame in the style of the period. Sampler size: 16W' x 19W'

Frame size: 18W' 21 W'

Price: $18,000.

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Fanny Goddard, England, 1807 This is an unusually lyrical sampler with lush foliage, bouquets of fl owers, garlands of meandering vines, a zebra, a recumbent deer and many varied birds and insects. The narrative verse, one that is not fo und on many samplers, was authored by William Cowper and published in The Summit of Human Felicity. The samplermaker, Fanny Goddard, was only 9 years old when she worked this delightful sampler, which is notable for the its literary verse as well as the sophistication of design and the fine execution of stitches. Fanny may have been the daughter of Richard and Melleness Goddard of the town of Petworth, Sussex, England, whose christening was recorded there on February 25, 1798. The sampler is in excellent condition, worked in silk on wool with some very small areas of weakness to the wool. It has been stabilized and conservation mounted into beveled maple fram e. Sampler size: 16W' x 11 W' Frame size: 19W' x 14%" Price: $2850.

Maria Elizabeth Blauvelt, Tappan, Rockland County, NY, 1839 The Blauvelt family was amongst the many early Dutch settlers to this area in the southeastern point of New York state, just at the New Jersey border. Books such as the History of Harlem by James Riker (1904) include much about this family, as well as the Demarest, Bogert, Ackerman, and Haring families with which they intermarried. Johannes Blauvelt was amongst the 16 original patentees of Tappan and many years later Maria Elizabeth Blauvelt worked this endearing sampler there. This sampler is signed, "Maria Elizabeth Blauvelt made this sampler in the ninth year of her age, " and it descended with a family note documenting that Maria was born in 1830 and worked this in 1839. Published family histories abound and we are able to confirm that Maria was indeed born on September 22, 1830, the second of six children. Her parents Abraham Blauvelt (1797 -1867) and Maria Bogert (1807 -1885) were married at one of the Dutch Reformed Churches of Tappan or Clarkstown on August 2, 1828. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted and is in an outstanding stenciled paint decorated beveled frame of the period. Sampler size: 12" x 8"

Frame size: 16W' x 12 W'

Price: $1850.

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Âˇet Maria Savory, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1822 Ruriet Maria Savory's sampler has an unusual and -ling personality; it combines an appealing poem a scripted font that is rarely found in needlework. -- specific verse has been found on other samplers is documented in the book, Folk Art in American l.iit by Bishop and Atkins (Viking Studio Books, 1995), which noted that the girls themselves Rrognized the importance of samplers and sewing within their lives.

Many generations of the Savory family, well documented in published books and town histories, RSided in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The family originated with Harriet's great great grandfather, Robert Savory (1656-1690), one of the original 23 people who "laid the venerable foundations of Old Sc:v.Âˇbury, now Newburyport," as reported in the 1893 family genealogical and biographical record. As stitched onto her sampler, Harriet was born September 11, 1811; she was one of the eleven dtildren of a tanner, Ebenezer Savory and his wife, Priscilla (Hale) Savory, who were married in _-ewburyport in 1790. Harriet didn't marry and remained in Newburyport throughout her life. Records indicate that she was a member of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society and contributed to their causes. From at least 1864 until her death in 1891, Harriet lived at 258 ~terri mac Street. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted and is in a 19th century gold leaf frame . Sampler size: 12W' x lOW'

Frame size: 15W' x 13W'

Price: $3850.

Sarah Shearman, England, 1780 This polychrome sampler worked by Sarah Shearman in August 1780 boasts a handsome composition. Two poems were stitched in a tablet format, divided by columns of colorful zigzags, and grounded by black and white stitches, much like a tiled floor. The verse on the left is taken from John Pomfret's (1667-1702) "To his Friend under Affliction," and on the right is a poem, "Life is Short and Miserable," by Thomas Dilworth (d. 1780). Sarah worked an Adam & Eve scene to the left of her inscription; a similar depiction balances the right with the biblical couple replaced by a deer and a dog. Both scenes have tent-stitched rolling grasses in varying shades of green, commonly found on samplers of this time period. Tightly stitched throughout in silk on wool, Sarah's sampler remains in excellent condition; it has been conservation mounted and in a period black and gold frame. Sampler size: 16%" x 12"

Frame size: 19W' x 14W'

Price: $4800.

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Mary Bonnel, Alexandria, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, c. 1835

As stated on her praiseworthy sampler, "Mary Bonne! was born September 15, 1821," the daughter of

a farmer, John Bonne!, and his wife, Jemima (VanSyckle) Bonne!, of the town of Alexandria, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Mary's grandfather, Abraham Bonnell, was a prominent Revolutionary War patriot who operated Bonnell Tavern, widely known as an important meeting place for politicians and activists during the war, located in the northern section of the county. The current historical marker at that site indicates that New Jersey's first regiment of Minutemen formed there in 1775. Abraham's family bible, with family record, is now in the collection of the Hunterdon County Historical Society. Mary wed Samuel Severs (1819-1898) , a farmer in Hunterdon County and they became the parents of three sons, Abraham, George and John. She died on November 25, 1853. Mary Bonnel's sampler stands as a fine example of Quaker sampler design from the early 19th century. The Quaker influence is apparent in the stylized lilies and floral sprays, cartouche-enclosed inscription and two pairs of birds. A Friends Meetinghouse was active in nearby Quakertown and Mary had descended from prominent Burlington County, New Jersey Quakers. The impressive two-chimney house, with its deep green shuttered windows and pair of birds perched on the roof, is flanked by small lions and large recumbent deer. Most samplers were worked by girls between 11 and 14 years of age and so we can assume that this sampler dates circa 1835. It was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition, conservation mounted into a cornerblock cherry and maple frame. Sampler size: 16W' x 17W'

Frame size: 20 W' x 21 W'

Price: $11,000.

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Mary Carr, Jamestown, Rhode Island, 1777 "On May 9, 1635 the ship Elizabeth and Ann slipped her mooring and put out from London, England under the command of Roger Cooper, Master. Her destination was New England. On board were one hundred and two passengers bearing permission to emigrate to the new world that lay on the western shore of their ocean. Among the passengers two should command our attention. These were a young man of twenty one and his little brother of eleven. They are listed in the old records as Robert and Caleb Carr." Thus begins the family story in The Carr Book: Sketches of the Lives of Many of the Descendants of Robert and Caleb Carr Whose Arrival on this Continent in 1635 Began the American Story of Our Family by Arthur A. Carr (Ticonderoga, NY, 1947). The maker of this sampler, Mary Carr, was the great great granddaughter of Caleb Carr (1624-1695) ; she was born on July 20, 1769 to Benjamin and Mary (Martindale) Carr of Jamestown, Rhode Island. The family resided in Rhode Island since Caleb Carr and his brother settled there in 1637. In 1777, nine-year-old Mary worked this excellent little sampler. Its composition is somewhat transitional, influenced by the band samplers of the early 18th century and the more square and pictorial format of the late 18th century. Birds perched on a tree, fat berries and flowers decorate the sampler, which features the alphabet above. As would be expected at this early date, the alphabet lacks the letters "J" and "U". The inscription reads, "Mary Carr her samplar made in the 10 year of my age 1777." This sampler enjoys an excellent provenance as it was in the renowned collection of Theodore H. Kapnek. The auction of his samplers in 1981 was a milestone event because of the depth and breadth of his collection, as well as the research in which he engaged. The field of antique samplers in general and his samplers in particular gained new status as a result of this important auction. Worked in silk on linen, the sampler is in excellent condition and has been conservation mounted into a period black molded and painted frame. Sampler size: 9W' x 7"

Frame size: 11 W' x 9W'

Price: $11,500.

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(detail of sampler by Mary Ann Cooley, 1825, page 6)

(detail of sampler by Clarissa Emerson, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1822, page 1)

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(detail of canvaswork by Elizabeth Newsam, 1753, page 5)

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SELECTED NEEDLEWORK BIBLIOGRAPHY Allen, Gloria Seaman. Family Record Genealogical Watercolors and Needlework. \Va hington, DC: DAR Museum, 1989. A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery, 1738-1 860, Maryland Historical ociety, 2007. Bolton, Ethel Stanwood and Coe, Eve Johnston. American Samplers. Boston: The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1921. Browne, Clare and Jennifer Wearden. Samplers from the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: V&A Publications, 1999. Edmonds, Mary Jaene. Samplers and Samplermakers, An American Schoolgirl Art 1700-1850. New York: Rizzoli, 1991. Herr, Patricia T. The Ornamental Branches, Needlework and Art from the Lititz Moravian Girls' School Between 1800 and 1865. The Heritage Center Museum of Lancaster County, Pa, 1996. Hersh, Tandy and Charles. Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans. Birdsboro, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1991. Humphrey, Carol. Samplers, Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Quaker School Girl Samplers from Ackworth. Needleprint & Ackworth School Estates Limited, 2006. lvey, Kimberly Smith. In the Neatest Manner: The Making of the Virginia Sampler Tradition. Colonial Williamsburg and Curious Works Press, 1997. Krueger, Glee F. A Gallery of American Samplers: The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. New England Samplers to 1840. Sturbridge, Massachusetts: Old Sturbridge Village, 1978. Parma!, Pamela A. Samplers from A to Z. Boston, Massachusetts: MFA Publications, 2000. Ring, Betty. American Needlework Treasures. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1987. Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850. Knopf, 1993. Let Virtue be a Guide to Thee: Needlework in the Education of Rhode Island Women, 1730-1820. Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1983. Schiffer, Margaret B. Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. Schoelwer, Susan P. Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art, and Family, 1740-1840. Hartford, Connecticut: The Connecticut Historical Society, 2010. Studebaker, Sue. Ohio Samplers, School Girl Embroideries 1803-1850. Warren County Historical Society, 1988. Ohio Is My Dwelling Place. Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2002 . Swan, Susan B. Plain and Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.

(detail of sampler by Anna Bartram, 1797, page 4)

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(detail of sampler by Jane Partridge, 1774, page 9)

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(detail of sampler by Sarah Otilia Ann Carver, 1833, page 11)

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