A Fine Needlework Sampler, Abigail Smith, Dighton, Massachusetts, Dated March 27, 1786

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Description

17 by 15 1/2 in. 43.2 by 39.35cm

worked with silk threads on a loosely-woven linen ground; with seated figures in the lower windows; the verses reading Abigail Smith is my name and with my needle I wrought the same in the 10th year of my age. Dighton March the 27th A.D. 1786, and Unveil Almighty Love Thy face, Thy beauties let me see, at once I'll rush to Thy embrace, I'll spring at once to Thee.

Provenance

Jeremiah Dexter (1730-1807), Providence, Rhode Island
John Morris (1828-1906) and Anna Emerson Morris (1830-1909), Providence, Rhode Island

Catalogue Note

An identical sampler by Abigail Smith's sister, Ann, is in the collection of the Concord, Massachusetts Antiquarian Society, and reproduced in Glee Krueger, New England Samplers to 1840, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, fig. 20.