Fine and Rare Needlework Sampler, Wrought by Ann Heyl, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dated 1789
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Auction Closed
January 23, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
Lot Details
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Fine and Rare Needlework Sampler
Wrought by Ann Heyl
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dated 1789
Worked in silk threads on a linen ground, depicting insects and a basket of fruit floating over a woman by a well with parrot and a castle-like building on a stepped terrace lawn with a shepherd with goats, recumbent stag, and geese, above the stitched words Ann Heyl Her Work Made In The Year 1789, all within an undulating floral border.
Sight 22 by 18 1/2 in.
Harry B. Hartman Antiques, Marietta, Pennsylvania.
This needlework depicts the three-dormer castle-like building discussed in Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers and Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, vol. II, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1993), fig. 390, p. 366. A closely related example was sold at Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 25, 2013, sale 8950, lot 283.
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