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BRITISH PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

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Description

BRITISH PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on wool, top row with a four-line verse on virtue flanked by butterflies above trees, below featuring larger butterflies, wreaths around birds, various plants, and a stylized flower vine, lower half with a scene depicting two soldiers in pink/red coats holding rifles and guarding a tower or fort topped by a flag, surrounded by plants and animals, bottom row signed "Hannah Mak / ens finifh th[i]s Sa / mp" in one corner and "In the 11 Year / of her Age" in the other corner, dated "October 23: 1809" along bottom edge, all encompassed by a scrolling strawberry vine border. Housed under glass in a 19th century gilt-molded frame. Dated 1809. 12 1/4" x 17 1/2" sight, 15 1/4" x 20 1/2" OA.
Literature: Parallels Sebba - Samplers: Five Centuries of a Gentle Craft, pp. 86-87.
Catalogue Note: The identity of Hannah Makens is unknown. We previously sold a 1797 sampler with a similar design featuring the same verse as part of the collection of Nick Routson, see Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, 5/22/2021, lot 14.

Provenance:

Property deaccessioned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA. All proceeds to benefit the collection acquisition fund.
Bequest of May C. Wheelock, Danbury, CT, 1995.

Condition

Stitching in very good visual condition with minor fugitive color, possibly one or a few minor losses, linen with several holes and losses, some light toning and discoloration, frame with chips and losses to molding, regilted. Not examined out of frame.

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BRITISH PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

Name: BRITISH PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
SKU: 175586136
Price: 500 USD
Availability: InStock

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