A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

WROUGHT BY MARY JENKINS, NEW YORK, DATED 1821

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A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Wrought by Mary Jenkins, New York, dated 1821
Worked in green, pink, peach, taupe, blue, brown and yellow silk threads centering horizontal verse "EDUCATION/ Know then that lifes chief happiness or wo, From good or evil education, flow, And hence our future dispositions rise, The vice we practice, or the good we prize/ Mary Jenkins aged 11 years New York/ 1821" surrounded by a cross-stitched squirrel, stars, flower baskets, garlands, acorn, buds and floral sprigs, all enclosed in a rectangular border set with meandering flowering vine
17in. square