Elizabeth Shermer's Sampler

Description:

One lower-case alphabet; six block alphabets; 26 letters. Numbers 1 through 17. Three practice eyelets, one worked in red cotton, two worked in red wool. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, tent, four-sided, eyelet, upright cross. THREAD COUNT: warp 26, weft 39/in.

Inscription:

"Elizabeth Shermer's
work done in the
eleventh year of her
age
1833"

Background:

This may be the Elizabeth Shermer who was born to Anthony and Anna Barbara Diehl Shermer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sixth alphabet on her sampler is very unusual and has been found on other Pennsylvania samplers.

Date Made: 1833

Maker: Shermer, Elizabeth

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: World

Depicted: Alphabets

Subject:

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Textiles, Samplers, Textiles

Exhibition:

Exhibition Location:

Credit Line: Katherine K. Olsen

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1985.0856.01Accession Number: 1985.0856Catalog Number: 1985.0856.01

Object Name: sampler

Physical Description: linen (ground fabroc material)silk (embroidery thread material)embroidered (overall production method/technique)Measurements: overall: 15 3/8 in x 16 1/8 in; 39.0525 cm x 40.9575 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-b51f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_650225

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