Object Details
- Associated Name
- Ghequiere, Ann Louisa
- Chequiere, Ann Louisa
- Description
- Five block alphabets of 26 letters, numbers to 14. Each row of alphabets and numbers different color. All these rows separated by narrow geometric crossbands. Border of geometric strawberry vine and single row of herringbone stitch on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, crosslet, long-armed cross, satin, herringbone, eyelet, four-sided, rice, queen, hem. THREAD COUNT: warp 28, weft 28/in.
- Inscriptions:
- "EDUCATION
- Youth like f[s]oftened Wax, with Eaf[s]e will take
Thof[s]e Images that firf[s]t impref[s]sions make.
If thof[s]e are fair, their Actions will be bright,
If foul, they'll clouded be with Shades of Night. - Ann Louisa Ghequiere [f]inished in her 9th year."
- Background:
- Ann Louisa was born about 1792 to Charles and Harriet Halley Ghequiere in Baltimore, Maryland. She married Dr. Martin Fenwick of West River, Maryland, on August 21, 1815, at St. Peter Pro-Cathedral in Baltimore, Maryland. The marriage was performed by Archbishop John Carroll, with whom her father had been friendly for many years. They had four children—;Harriet, Louisa Claire, Chloe, and Henry. Ann Louisa died on February 22, 1864 in West River.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Harriet Fenwick Donaldson
- 1799
- ID Number
- TE.T14210
- catalog number
- T14210
- accession number
- 59228
- Object Name
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linen (ground fabric material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 5/8 in x 13 3/4 in; 37.1475 cm x 34.925 cm
- place made
- United States: Maryland, Baltimore
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Alphabets
- Record ID
- nmah_639606
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-9f5c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
