Object number1997.7.50
Sampler
Date1811
Artist
Nancy Chadwick
(English)
CultureEnglish
MediumSilk threads on linen ground
DimensionsTextile: 15 1/8 × 10 3/4 in. (38.42 × 27.31 cm)
Strainer: 14 9/16 × 10 1/4 in. (36.99 × 26.04 cm)
Frame: 16 × 12 in. (40.64 × 30.48 cm)
Strainer: 14 9/16 × 10 1/4 in. (36.99 × 26.04 cm)
Frame: 16 × 12 in. (40.64 × 30.48 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedAt bottom: Nancy Chadwick
InscribedInscribed: I live in a Cottage and yonder it stands / and while I can work with these two/ honest hands/ I am as happy as thee that has houses/ and lands
At bottom: Nancy Chadwick / Oct 2nd Aged 13 years 1811
BibliographyBolton & Coe; Thanks 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, 2004DescriptionVerse, cottage in field, shepherd & shepherdess, chickens & two sheep on green lawn with carnation border
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