Nancy Mary Lindley's Sampler
Nancy Mary Lindley's Sampler
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- Description
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Five block alphabets; one script alphabet; numbers to 15. All alphabets colored in pairs or groups. Six narrow geometric crossbands. Verse in lower register flanked by two-story house and tree. Red cotton thread used only for "s" in "Lindleys" and for three small geometric motifs at bottom of sampler. Border of geometric zig-zag on all four sides. Silk and cotton embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, Algerian eye. THREAD COUNT: warp 39, weft 42/in.
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Inscriptions:
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"Nancy Mary Lindleys work done at the age of 8 years
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Let virtue be my greatest care
And study my delight
So shall my day be always fair
And peaceable my night,"
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Background:
- Nothing is known about the life of Nancy Mary Lindley.
- Object Name
- sampler
- Date made
- 1800-1825
- maker
- Lindley, Nancy Mary
- Place Made
- World
- Physical Description
- linen (ground fabric material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- cotton (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 in x 16 in; 40.64 cm x 40.64 cm
- ID Number
- TE.T14662
- catalog number
- T14662
- T.14662
- accession number
- 279148
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Sebenius, from the collection of his mother Mrs. C. Harold Sebenius
- subject
- Alphabets
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- Cultural and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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