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1796
GUSN-271709
Sampler with embroidered alphabet, verses, numbers, people and animals depicted in silk thread on a linen ground. Text is surrounded by flowers, flying birds and birds in trees. Bottom half of sampler shows a small house at left with faces peeking out of the first floor windows. To the right of the house is a fence and woman standing next to a flowering tree. Border has a flowering vine and skeletal zebras. Plain wood frame.
samplers (embroidery)
silk (textile)
linen (material)
Sampler
"Anna Leonard Smith is my name and with my/ needle I wrought the same in the 11 year of/ my age Dighton July the 31 AD 1796" "From low pursuits exalt my mind/ From ev'ry vice of ev'ry kind/ Nor let my conduct ever tend To wound the feelings of a friend" (Embroidered)
606.1
883
Smith, Anna Leonard, 1785- (Embroiderer)
MA, United States
22 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Estate of James B. Thompson Jr.
2012.209.1
Massachusetts (United States)
Dighton (Bristol county, Massachusetts)
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