Object number1997.7.56
Sampler
Date1782
Artist
Sarah Pearce
(British or American)
CultureBritish
MediumSilk threads on wool ground
DimensionsSight (tall rectangle): 16 15/16 x 13 3/8 in. (43 x 34 cm)
Framed (modern frame with ultraviolet filtering glass): 17 5/16 x 14 3/16 x 1/2 in. (44 x 36 x 1.3 cm)
Sight (rabbet): 3/16 x 9/16 x 3/8 in. (0.5 x 1.4 x 1 cm)
Framed (modern frame with ultraviolet filtering glass): 17 5/16 x 14 3/16 x 1/2 in. (44 x 36 x 1.3 cm)
Sight (rabbet): 3/16 x 9/16 x 3/8 in. (0.5 x 1.4 x 1 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod18th c
Classification(s)
SignedLL: Sarah Pearce
InscribedInscribed (top portion): "On EASTER / THE holy Feast of Easter was enjoin'd / To bring christ's resurrection to our mind / Rise then from sin as he did from the Grave / That by his Merits he your souls may save. / Of CHRISTMAS / AT the Nativity of Christ our Lord. / The Angels did rejoice with one accord, / Let Christians imitate them here on Earth. / And keep this Feast with joy and civil mirth."
At bottom: Sarah Pearce her work in the 11 year of her age July 1782
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, "Modeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women," January 27-March 15, 2000; Poughkeepsie, 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, 2004DescriptionInscriptions, design of three houses, flowers, coach & people
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