Fine and Rare Needlework Sampler, Cordelia L. Bennet, New York, dated 1807

Worked in silk stitches on an all-over worked ground, inscribed Cordelia L. Bennet is my name and New York is my Dwelling Place and Christ is my salvation, dated 1807.

Mrs. Jonathan Amory Haskell, New York;

Joe Kindig, York, Pennsylvania, June 1965;

The Theodore H. Kapnek sale at Sotheby's, sale number 4531Y, January 29, 1981, lot 50.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1934 Loan Exhibition of New York State Furniture; American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p. 32, fig. 51)

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Like the earlier New York Biblical samplers, this piece is worked entirely over the ground. It is not certain which of her samplers Cordelia Bennet worked first; they were separated more than fifty years ago.