A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

WORKED BY MARY HARVEY LAMBORN, PHILADELPHIA, DATED JULY 3, 1827

Details

A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Worked by Mary Harvey Lamborn, Philadelphia, dated July 3, 1827
Worked in polychrome silk threads depicting a vase issuing flowers enclosing the verse "when this you see Remember me," centering an inscribed verse in two columns reading "Tho age may show Youths fond pursuits are vain Here to be enjoyd," and "Yet may this work Of pleasing proof remain Of you tho say period Usefully employd," all within a floral and grape border and above a pastoral scene
17 x 17in.

Literature

Marcus Nuish, Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries (London, 1913), fig. 49.
"A Houston Collection of American Antiques," Antiques (September 1975), p. 505, pl. III.

Lot Essay

With a densely stitched "terraced garden" at the bottom filled with pastoral animals and a composition of balancing verse and family names on either side of a central cluster of flowers, this sampler is reminiscent of an earlier sampler made by Margaret Hopple in 1791 (illustrated in Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework: 1650-1850, vol.II (New York, 1993), p.364, fig.389.