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Needlework Sampler, Cambridge, MA c.1824

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Needlework Sampler, Cambridge, MA c.1824
Needlework Sampler, Cambridge, MA c.1824
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  • Title: Needlework Sampler, Cambridge, MA c.1824
  • Materials: Silk on linen
  • Dimension: 13 ½” x 16 ½” sight, 15 ½” x 18 ½” framed.
  • Provenance/Additional Info: Sarah Hancock. Needlework Sampler. Cambridge, MA c.1824. Sarah as a young girl in school stitched this pleasing sampler inscribed; Wrought by Sarah Hancock, Cambridge. Sarah was the 2nd daughter of Torrey Hancock and Olive Orcutt. Olive died 6 months after Sarah was born and her father married Isabella Rice in 1811 and they had six children. According to the History of Cambridge, Sarah’s father, “Torrey” was a blacksmith and was the subject of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “ The Village Blacksmith”. She included the most popular verse found on samplers and a three-sided zigzag rosebud and vine border completing the work. Sarah at age 20 married Josiah W. Cook, A deacon of the First Baptist Church and the City Assessor and they had three children.

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    Needlework Sampler, Cambridge, MA c.1824

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