Elizabeth Mason's Sampler
Elizabeth Mason's Sampler
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- Description
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Three block alphabets. No "J"; numbers to 18 and to 9; alphabets and numbers colored in groups of two. Rows of lettering and numbers separated by geometric crossbands; also two wide crossbands; one geometric strawberry vine, and one geometric vine with free-style roses, with guide-lines drawn under roses. At bottom of sampler, stag and doe on hillocks, surrounded by birds, butterflies, trees, flowers, under angular garland; stag and doe have satin-stitched collars. Name and date appear in flower-shaped medallion hanging from garland. Border of band of sawtoothed satin stitch and geometric carnation vine on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, crosslet, stem, satin, Algerian eye, straight, bullion. THREAD COUNT: warp 36, weft 29/in.
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Inscriptions:
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"See How The Lillief[s] Flour White And Fair
See How the Ravenf[s] Fed From Heavenf[s] Air
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Arif[s]e Thou King of Kingf[s] Arif[s]e And Reign
Except Thy Worf[s]hip SprinG All Worf[s]hipf[s] Vain
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Elizabeth
Maf[s]On her
WOrk Ma
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in the 11
Year Of
her ag
1783"
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Background:
- Elizabeth Mason was probably from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- sampler
- Date made
- 1783
- maker
- Mason, Elizabeth
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- linen (ground fabric material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18 1/4 in x 16 1/8 in; 46.355 cm x 40.9575 cm
- ID Number
- TE.E391808
- catalog number
- E391808
- accession number
- 71679
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gertrude D. Webster
- subject
- Alphabets
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- Cultural and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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