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Very Fine and Rare Needlework Sampler, Wrought by Abigail Buel, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Dated 1807
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January 23, 04:26 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Very Fine and Rare Needlework Sampler
Wrought by Abigail Buel
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Dated 1807
Worked in cream, pink, teal, and light blue threads on a linen ground with appliqued and embroidered black silk border; the sampler portion above signature and motto: Abigail Buel,s Sampler wrought in/ the 10th yr. of her age Grt Barrington Nov,br/ 6th AD 1807. Modesty is the citadel of Beauty and Virtue, continuing to another aphorism worked in black satin stitches with silver wrapped letters Remember thy Creator in the days of thy Youth / May Peace & Plenty be thy Portion here and Immortal Bliss hereafter.
Height 16 3/4 in. by Width 14 3/4 in.
Carol and Stephen Huber, East Lyme, Connecticut.
Illustrated in Glee Krueger New England Samplers to 1840 (1978) fig. 65;
Stephen and Carol Huber "The Sampler Engagement Calendar and Reference Guide 1993", cover and pl. 46.
Two related examples from this school include a sampler wrought by Nancy Sibley in Great Barrington in 1808, illustrated in Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery, vol. 1, fig. 17 and now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, as well as a sampler wrought by Louisa Wainright, aged 11 years, in 1809, illustrated and discussed in M. Finkel and Daughter, Samplings: A Selected Offering of Antique Samplers and Needlework, Vol. XLI, (Philadelphia: 2012), p. 25.
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