Caroline Quick's Sampler

Caroline Quick's Sampler

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Description
This sampler features two block alphabets with a lower case backward “j,” She included the following inscription:
“Bestow dear Lord upon our youth
The gift of saving grace
And let the seed of sacred truth
Fall in a fruitful place
Caroline Quick 1841”
Caroline Quick’s inscription is from a hymn, Prayer for a Blessing by English poet William Cowper (1731-1800). Stitching such a verse on her sampler was a way for Caroline to receive religious instruction. The sampler is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 22, weft 25/ in. The stitches used are cross, four-sided, double cross, queen, Algerian eye, and crosslet.
Caroline Quick (c.1831) was the daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Quick and was born in Ulster County, Marlborough, New York. In the 1880 New York census she was living with George and Timna Quick Woolsey. Timna was a sister to Caroline, and George and Timna were the parents of donor Harriet Woolsey Gardner, Mrs. Daniel Gardner.
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
embroidery, sampler
sampler
date made
1841
maker
Quick, Caroline
place made
United States: New York, Marlboro
Physical Description
linen (ground material)
silk (embroidery thread material)
cotton (embroidery thread material)
Measurements
overall: 17 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in; 44.1325 cm x 20.0025 cm
ID Number
TE.H37549
catalog number
H37549
accession number
115031
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Daniel Gardner
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
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