Sampler
- Title:
- Patience Sanders Sampler
- Object Name:
- Sampler
- Creator:
- Sanders, Patience, 1783-
- Date:
- 1790-1800
- Material:
- Cotton floss on linen ground
- Description:
- Schoolgirl sampler of Patience Sanders (1783-). Natural linen ground sampler worked with light and dark brown, natural, blue, pale blue/green and black cotton floss. Hemmed top, bottom, left side, selvage on the right. Includes four alphabets: two upper case scripts, one upper class block, one lower case. On fourth line: "Patience Sanders, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Q." Motifs include a large "A" in script, vertical black line and two trees in lower left corner, drawn work triangles across bottom and mid-right side.
- People:
- Sanders, Patience, 1783-
- Collection Name:
- Monadnock Center Sampler Collection
- Item Number:
- 1950.135.1
- Accession Number:
- 1950.135
- Type of Material:
- Objects
- Copyright Statement:
- For information regarding copyright, permissions, and reproductions contact the Monadnock Center for History and Culture at Peterborough Historical Society.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Ida Farr Miller
- Participating Organization:
- Monadnock Center for History and Culture at Peterborough Historical Society
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