A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

SIGNED BY ELIZABETH LUDLOW, PROBABLY NEW YORK CITY, DATED 1802

细节

A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Signed by Elizabeth Ludlow, probably New York City, dated 1802
Depicting stars, trees, flowers, baskets of fruit and prancing deer above the legend, "This Have I Don To Let You See What Care My Mother Took Of Me This Work In Hands My Friends May Have When I Am Dead And Laid In The Grave Elizabeth Ludlow. Her Work Aged 7 YearS 1802," all enclosed by a vine border, worked in white, blue, green, yellow and brown threads
14 x 12in. sight

拍品专文

The Ludlow Family was one of the most prominent families in late eighteenth-century New York City. Elizabeth, the maker of the sampler offered here, was a descendant of Gabriel Ludlow, a Revolutionary War General.