Object number1997.7.31
Sampler
Date1800
Artist
Susanna Clarke
(American (Massachusetts), born 1785)
CultureAmerican
MediumSilk threads on wool ground
DimensionsFramed: 14 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (36.5 x 27.6 cm)
Sight (Textile): 12 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (32 x 23.5 cm)
Mount: 12 5/8 x 9 1/4 x 3/8 in. (32 x 23.5 x 1 cm)
Sight (Textile): 12 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (32 x 23.5 cm)
Mount: 12 5/8 x 9 1/4 x 3/8 in. (32 x 23.5 x 1 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedLL: Susanna Clarke
Inscribed(Inscribed in second portion): Thanks be to my Friends for their / Care of my Breeding, / Who taught me betimes to Love / Working and Reading.
At bottom: Susanna Clarke Oct the 13th 1800
BibliographyThanks be to my Friends: Selected Samplers from the Collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2004) Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Thanks be to my Friends: Selected Samplers from the Collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center," June 5-July 18, 2004DescriptionAlphabet, numbers, and inscription. Great borders. EC EC EC MC IC EC FC AC CC LC SC MC IC CC MM. Verse is from Isaac Watts' Moral Songs, "The Sluggard."
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