Object number1997.7.64
Sampler
Date1829
Artist
Almira Martha Carmichael
(American, 1814 - 1833)
CultureAmerican
MediumSilk threads on 40 count linen ground
DimensionsSight (mostly square): 14 1/8 x 14 1/2 in. (35.9 x 36.8 cm)
Framed: 15 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 3/4 in. (40 x 41.9 x 1.9 cm)
Framed: 15 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 3/4 in. (40 x 41.9 x 1.9 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedAt bottom: Almira Martha Carmichael aged 14 years
InscribedAt center: As beauty and pleasure are near in their prime/ When folly and fashion respect my whole/ time/ Ah! let not theses trifles my wishes/ engage/ Let me live so in youth that I blush not in age. / Sandlake Rensalaer County, New York September the 23rd A.D. 1829
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, 2004DescriptionThis sampler displays an inner and outer black saw tooth border. Within the outer border in the top register is a gable end view of a farmhouse, three bays deep, flanked by a fruit tree and other green trees. Within the inner border are three alphabets, two number sequences, a verse, and two inscriptions (signature and birthdate) separated by 3 dividing bands. Below and to the sides of the inner border is an array of small trees and flower sprigs.
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