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A Needlework Sampler, worked by Jemma Morrill, Canterbury, New Hampshire, dated 1795

No reserve

Auction Closed

April 21, 08:50 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Needlework Sampler

dated 1795


16¾ x 16⅛ in. (42.6 x 41.1 cm.)

Foulke Collection
Stephen and Carol Huber, East Lyme, Connecticut
Joan Stephens, Potomac, Maryland
Sotheby's, New York, The Joan Stephens Collection: Important Samplers and Pictorial Needlework, January 19, 1997, sale 6942, lot 2044
Wolf Family Collection No. 1117 (acquired from the above)
Hanover, New Hampshire, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Lessons Stitched in Silk: Samplers from the Canterbury Region of New Hampshire, March 10-13, 1990,  p. 18, illustrated
Stephen and Carol Huber, 1992 Sampler Engagement Calendar, fig. 2