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Cross stitched sampler by "Lucy Ann Nash Aged 12 Wrought Weymouth 1826." In green and brown cotton on linen, the sampler begins with the upper case of the alphabet in script, then in plain lettering, below her signature is an embroidered scene with two trees flanking a basket of flowers. The border is a cross stitched flowering vine. Under glass in thin black wood frame.
samplers (embroidery)
needlework (visual works)
cotton (textile)
cross-stitching
embroidering
linen (material)
alphabets (symbols)
baskets (containers)
vines
floral patterns
trees
Linen
Cotton
Cross-stitched
Alphabet
Tree
Fruit Basket
Vine
Embroidered
Sampler
See Description.
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Nash, Lucy Ann, b. ca. 1814 (Embroiderer)
Weymouth, MA, USA
16 x 14.125 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.879
Massachusetts (United States)
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