Rare Needlework Sampler, Margery Jane McGuire, Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1840

Worked in brightly colored wool stitches on a linen ground, signed Margery Jane McGuire Aged 10; Maryland Hospital.

Sloan & Co., Washington, D.C., June 5, 1983

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p. 51, fig. 86)

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Public buildings and elegant homes are pictured on an important group of Baltimore samplers worked in the 1820s, and the tradition continued until the close of the schoolgirl-needlework era. (For another rendition of the hospital, c. 1822, see ANTIQUES, January
1962, p. 117)