Samplers
Samplers were made in America from the early 1700s. The best examples were made from 1790 to 1840. Long, narrow samplers are usually older than square ones. Early samplers just had stitching or alphabets. The later examples had numerals, borders, and pictorial decorations. Those with mottoes are mid-Victorian. A revival of interest in the 1930s produced simpler samplers, usually with mottoes. Seventeenth-century samplers are rare and it is said there are only five samplers from before the seventeenth century known to exist.
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Image Category Pattern or Item Description Year Priced Samplers Verse Alphabets, Sawtooth Border, Mary Bowman, Age 12, 1830, Silk On Linen, 19 x 18 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Alphabets, Strawberry, Vine Border, 1795, Silk On Linen, Frame, 11 x 18 1/2 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Cherubs, House, Stags, Trees, Vine Border, Sarah Sheldrake, Age 13, 1836, 18 x 20 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Church, Graveyard, Mary Ann Latham, 1828, 13 3/4 x 15 3/4 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Doves, Butterflies, Flowers, 2 Houses, Anna Wilfong, 1825, Frame, 16 x 17 1/2 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Elisabeth Brown Woodaman, Halifax National School, 1822, Silk On Linen, 21 x 11 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Elizabeth Macbeth, Aged 12 Years, 1819, 13 x 16 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Elizabeth Richardson, 8 Years, New York, January 29, 1829, Silk On Linen, 20 x 21 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Flower Band, Elizabeth Flockhart, 1760, Silk On Wool, Frame, 14 x 15 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Flower Border, Plants, Dogs, Crowns, Hearts, Ann White, 1833, 16 x 17 1/2 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Flowers, Birds, Ann Parkinson, 1803, England, Frame, 20 1/2 x 22 1/2 In. 2010 Samplers Verse House, Ann Richardson, Silk On Linen, 23 1/2 x 18 1/2 In. 2010 Samplers Verse House, Crowns, Angels, Baskets, Mary Drummond, July 1830, 19 1/2 x 12 1/2 In. 2010 Samplers Verse House, Flowers, Birds, M. Cathrine Metchger, 1863, Frame, 14 1/2 x 15 In. 2010 Samplers Verse House, Rachel Skiles, Age 14, Lancaster County, 1806, Silk On Linen, Frame, 14 x 14 In. 2010 Samplers Verse House, Red, Sheep, Grapevine, Mary Ann Crowe, Dauphin, Pa., 1836, 25 x 21 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Mary Palmer, Aged 10, 1785, Silk On Wool, 19 3/4 x 14 1/2 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Peacocks, Sarah Kingston, Aged 7, 1818, Frame, 12 x 15 1/2 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Religious, Flower Wreath Border, Mary Ann Hyatt, 1833, Silk On Gauze, Frame, 17 x 15 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Scenes, Mary Ellingworth, 1798, 19 x 23 1/2 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Trees, Animals, Strawberry, Vine, Hannah Harvey, Linen, Frame, 11 1/4 x 12 In. 2010 Samplers Verse Butterflies, Flowers, Birds, Building, Animals, Vine, Born August 8, 1824, Frame, 16 x 17 In., illustrated 2009 Samplers Verse Castle, Flowers, Trees, Ribbon Border, Frame, 19 x 16 In., illustrated 2009 Samplers Verse Flower Border, J Garrison, April 3, 1939, Frame, 16 3/4 In., illustrated 2009 Samplers 3 Alphabets Numbers, Blue, Brown, Frame, S.E. Robinson Aged 11, 1840s, 12 x 12 In. 2009
