Object number1960.9.66
Sampler
Date1813
Artist
Ann Kendall
(English)
CultureEnglish, Yorkshire
MediumSilk threads on linen ground
DimensionsSight: 16 1/2 x 23 5/16 in. (41.91 x 59.21 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. James W. Packard (Elizabeth Gillmer, class of 1894)
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
Signed Ann Kendall 1813
InscribedInscribed: Lord give me Wisdom to direct my ways beg not the riches nor the le/ / She Plucked the fruit it tasted sweet and gave to Adam / for to eat the which did all her glory blast they out of par/ / adise were east God said the woman shall be still Subject / unto her husbands will also i will decree that thou / shall work with sweat upon they brow Nevertheless the womans see shall break the serpents head indeed be thou faithful unto death and I will give the a crown of Life
UL: Ann Kendall Work Done 11 years 1813
BibliographyThanks be to my Friends: Selected Samplers from the Collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2004)
Sampler (Be thou faithfull unto death...")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, 2004DescriptionThe Ann Kendall sampler is formatted as a wide rectangle depicting a scene of Adam and Eve with the two figures set on either side of a serpent-entwined Apple tree and between two pair trees. On the ground line are two parades of small animals in the direction of the tree - a peacock, a stylized lion, and a dog on the one side, a peacock, deer, and dog on the other. Potted plants, birds, butterflies, and a sun and moon are arranged on either side of the apple tree branches, which are situated below a pair of angels bearing a crown above the verse "Be/ thou faithful /unto death and I will/ give the a crown of life". Above the scene, a strawberry border, a cross stitch dividing line, and two flowering plants, separate and embellish the inscription and verse block. A regular, stylized floral border is set between two rows of elongated (2 x 4 thread) cross stitch. Colors are blues, greens. rust, yellow, cream, brown and pink.
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