Object number1997.7.60
Sampler
Date1809
Artist
Ann Dimond
(English)
CultureEnglish
MediumWool and silk embroidery yarns on wool warp and weft ground, mounted on wooden strainer with iron tacks
DimensionsUnframed (Textile: approximate): 17 1/4 × 13 5/8 in. (43.82 × 34.61 cm)
Mount: 16 7/8 × 13 3/8 × 3/8 in. (42.86 × 33.97 × 0.95 cm)
Mount: 16 7/8 × 13 3/8 × 3/8 in. (42.86 × 33.97 × 0.95 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedTC: Ann Dimond
InscribedInscribed below the arbors she has stitched: The eyes of the Lord are in every/ Place beholding the evil and the good. / (Verso on strainer, Label 1): 426 ; (Verso on strainer, Label 2): JOHN WANAMAKER / NEW YORK.
TC: Ann Dimond/ finish this sampler/ In the 9 Year of/ her Age 1808.
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, 2004DescriptionHouse, mill, flowers
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