Object Details
- Phillips, Augusta Ann
- Description
- Three block alphabets; one double of 26 letters and one script alphabet of 26 letters. Numbers to 21. All rows separated by simple geometric crossbands. In lower half of sampler two-story brick house with two chimneys and double door on stepped terrace, flanked by two pairs of flower baskets. Border of single row of cross-stitch on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, rice, Algerian eye, four-sided, crosslet, stem, outline, French knot. THREAD COUNT: warp 27, weft 31/in.
- Inscriptions:
- "The rof[s]e, The Sweetly Blooming rof[s]e
Ere from the Tree itf[s] torn
Itf[s] Like the charmf[s] which Beauty Show
In Livef[s] exulting Morn. - Auguf[s]ta Ann PhilliPs June
The 18 1794" - Background:
- Nothing is known about the life of Augusta Ann Phillips.
- 1794
- ID Number
- TE.E309069
- catalog number
- E309069
- E 309069
- accession number
- 63668
- Object Name
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linen (ground fabric material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17 1/2 in x 17 in; 44.45 cm x 43.18 cm
- Place Made
- World
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Flowers
- Architecture, Domestic Buildings
- Alphabets
- Record ID
- nmah_630934
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-9847-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
