Object Details
- Hussey, Anzolette
- Description
- Three block alphabets of 26 letters (one incomplete); one script alphabet to "V"; no "J"; numbers to 9. Alphabets and numbers colored in pairs or groups with all rows separated by simple geometric crossbands. At bottom of sampler, pair of birds on trees and pair of urns with flowers. Border of simple geometric meandering band on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on dark green linsey-woolsey ground; warp is blue linen and weft is green wool. STITCHES: cross, satin, hem. THREAD COUNT: warp 24, weft 34/in.
- Inscription:
- "Anzolette Hussey Aged
9 Years Nov 7th 1821" - Background:
- Anzolette was born on April 7, 1812, to Captain Andrew (1783–1861) and Mary Tredick Hussey in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She married Ebenezer Knight on June 15, 1835, and they had five daughters—Mary, Ariadne, Hannah E., Sarah K., and Abby. Anzolette died on November 20, 1895, in Washington, D.C., but is buried in Portsmouth. This sampler is very different from her other one and was probably worked at a different school. In 1827, at the age of fourteen, she was a student in the First Female School of Portsmouth. Throughout her life she used two different spellings for her first name. See Annzalette Hussey for her other sampler.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Abby Knight McLane
- 1821
- ID Number
- TE.H33960
- catalog number
- H33960
- H. (/) 33960
- accession number
- 63786
- Object Name
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linsey-woolsey (ground fabric material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 1/8 in x 10 in; 33.3375 cm x 25.4 cm
- Place Made
- United States: New Hampshire, Portsmouth
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Alphabets
- Record ID
- nmah_630940
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-9af1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
