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WROUGHT BY MARY N. CLARK, MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, 1836
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A SILK ON LINEN NEEDLEWORK
Wrought by Mary N. Clark, Milford, Connecticut, 1836
Rectangular and worked in cream, blue, mustard, green, brown and pink silk threads in four horizontal alphabetical and numeric registers, the second and last inscribed Mary N. Clark marked this Sampler in the 12 th year of her age/1836 born Feb 24th 1825 Milford Connt NH Better never to have been Than to live and die in sin Better hear no Sound at all Than refuse the gospel call, above an open reserve centering a house flanked by trees, an urn issuing flowers and the wrought inscription Miss Martha Downs Instructor, all surrounded by wrought meandering vines and flowers; together with a rectangular panel worked in two sections, the upper with open work vines and flowers above ten squares of sample stitches (unillustrated)
14¾x11½in. (sight) the first; 125/8x13in. (sight) the second (2)
Wrought by Mary N. Clark, Milford, Connecticut, 1836
Rectangular and worked in cream, blue, mustard, green, brown and pink silk threads in four horizontal alphabetical and numeric registers, the second and last inscribed Mary N. Clark marked this Sampler in the 12 th year of her age/1836 born Feb 24th 1825 Milford Connt NH Better never to have been Than to live and die in sin Better hear no Sound at all Than refuse the gospel call, above an open reserve centering a house flanked by trees, an urn issuing flowers and the wrought inscription Miss Martha Downs Instructor, all surrounded by wrought meandering vines and flowers; together with a rectangular panel worked in two sections, the upper with open work vines and flowers above ten squares of sample stitches (unillustrated)
14¾x11½in. (sight) the first; 125/8x13in. (sight) the second (2)