Object Details
- Bailiff, Sarah
- Description
- Four block alphabets of 26 letters. One script alphabet to "P"; no "J." Numbers to 4. Each row worked in one color, and all rows separated by simple geometric crossbands. Two strawberry plants to right of verse. No border. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, Algerian eye, four-sided, upright gobelin, satin, stem, hem. THREAD COUNT: warp 26, weft 28/in.
- Inscriptions:
- "Now mark the Sequel May Your mind
In wiSdomS waYS true PleaSure find
Grow StronG in virtu rich in truth
And Year bY Year renew itS youth
Till in the late triumphant hoUr
The SPirit Shall the fleSh overPoWer
ThiS from itS SUfferinGS Gain releaSe
And that taKe WinG and Part in PeaCe - Sarah BaILIff'S SamPler done Nov 27 1839"
- Background:
- Sarah Bailiff gave her sampler to a member of Justice Alfred Moore's family at Moorefields, North Carolina, their summer home. It descended in that family until it was given to the Smithsonian. Sarah Bailiff's date of birth has not yet been identified.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Rebecca Waddell Cushman
- 1839
- ID Number
- TE.T12722
- catalog number
- T12722
- accession number
- 238996
- Object Name
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linen (ground fabric material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18 1/8 in x 16 1/2 in; 46.0375 cm x 41.91 cm
- Place Made
- World
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Alphabets
- Record ID
- nmah_639597
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-860f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
