Object number1997.7.164
Sampler
Date1824
Artist
Eliza Fisher
(American)
CultureAmerican
MediumSilk threads on linen ground
DimensionsSight (mostly square): 24 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (62.2 x 62.2 cm)
Framed (vintage frame with glass): 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 3/4 in. (69.8 x 69.8 x 1.9 cm)
Framed (vintage frame with glass): 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 3/4 in. (69.8 x 69.8 x 1.9 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedBC: Eliza Fisher
InscribedStitched upper left center: J ◊ S; upper right center: M ◊ S; second line upper left: W ◊ S V ◊ S J ◊ S; second line upper right: J ◊ D E ◊ D S ◊ S; third line center: J ◊ S B ◊ S J ◊ S G ◊ S; fourth line left: S • A • F J ◊ F; fourth line right: J ◊ S / S ◊ F E • W • F; fifth line left: M ◊ D; fifth line right: I ◊ F H ◊ F; center: This work perhaps my friends may have / When I am silent in my grave / And which when eer you chance to see / May kind remembrance picture me / While on this glowing canvas stands / The labour of my youthful hands / No other care than this I knew / But perseverance brought me through; sixth line left: J ◊ F; sixth line right: E ◊ F; lower center: [signature] / Septr 17th / 1824; seventh line left: S ◊ D; seventh line right: M ◊ F; eighth line center: M ◊ F J ◊ D; ninth line left: E ◊ D W • S • F; ninth line right: J • C • F J • A • F; tenth line left: J ◊ D; tenth line right: R ◊ F
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryModeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 27 - March 15, 2000DescriptionStand-alone image of stars, butterflies, birds, flowers, flowers in vases, trees, and possible fruit within a floral border at left, top, and right. At bottom in a landscape is a three story house, flanked by a fence with a tree on either side. A poem is at center and throughout the composition are initials. A Quaker schoolgirl style house sampler. See Ann Flitcraft (1997.7.166) as one of several comparisons in this collection
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