Object number1997.7.166
Sampler
Date19th century
Artist
Ann Fliteraft
(American)
CultureAmerican
MediumSilk threads on linen ground
DimensionsSight (mostly square): 21 5/8 x 22 3/4 in. (54.9 x 57.8 cm)
Framed: 30 3/8 x 30 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (77.2 x 78.1 x 5.4 cm)
Framed: 30 3/8 x 30 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (77.2 x 78.1 x 5.4 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedAt center: Ann Flitcraft
Inscribed This work of mine / My friends may have / When I am in / A silent grave / Ann Flitcraft / 1831
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Modeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women," January 27-March 15, 2000DescriptionA Quaker house and flowers schoolgirl sampler with an enwreathed inscription, including confronting birds, above a brick, two-floor, five-bay, hip roof house with a central doorway and two dormers in the attic story. Willow trees on either side of the house are worked in long and short stitch and bullion stitch. Butterflies, paired confronting birds, and flowering twigs, the flowers worked in untwisted silk, and paired baskets fill the rest of the sampler ground, surrounded by a strawberry or rosebud border. Thread colors are green, blue, tan, brown, white, black, and pink.
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