Object Details
- Batchelder, Nancy
- Description
- Block upper-case alphabet of 26 letters, plus additional letters "NSABCDMHW." Three block lower-case alphabets of 26 letters. Script alphabet to "W" ("XYZ" in lower part of sampler, with inscription). Numbers 1 to 0 and vowels follow inscription. All these rows separated by simple crossbands. At bottom of sampler, flowering plant with birds, flanked by large urns of flowers and small flowering plants; much of this section worked in crinkled silk thread. Guidelines under some flowers and stems. Border of geometric flowering vine edged by narrow bands. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: satin, cross, stem, crosslet, chain, eyelet, surface satin, straight, encroaching satin, roumanian. THREAD COUNT: warp 22, weft 22/in.
- Inscriptions:
- "Youth like the sPring in verdues clad InraPtu'd beauties they disPlay
Their blooming smiles Profusive shed Which win the heart but fade awaY - Nancy Batchelder aged twelve years aeiou wy
- Whilst You ingraVe with Silken art
Let Virtue occuPy Your heart" - Background:
- Nothing is known about the life of Nancy Batchelder.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Marion J. McLean
- 1800-1825
- ID Number
- TE.T08816
- catalog number
- T8816
- accession number
- 164484
- Object Name
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linen (ground fabric material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 1/2 in x 17 3/8 in; 41.91 cm x 44.1325 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_639582
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-9a31-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
