細節
A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
HARTFORD AREA, CONNECTICUT, DATED 1828
Worked in green, cream, blue, brown and black silk threads in a variety of stitches including cross, straight and rice stiches in three pictorial registers comprising at the top the wrought verse, "PETITION O may I seek in early youth What guards from future harms Religion Modesty and Truth For these have always charms" flanked by birds and stylized foliage above a wrought identification, "Worked by SARAH AMANDA DELIA CHARLOTTE KLEIN BRAINARD DONE IN thE 10 YEAR of hER AgE 1828" flanked by stylized butterflies, birds, flowers and foliage over a third pictorial band of flowers and foliage, the whole enclosed by a border of meandering flowers--16½in. high, 17in. wide
HARTFORD AREA, CONNECTICUT, DATED 1828
Worked in green, cream, blue, brown and black silk threads in a variety of stitches including cross, straight and rice stiches in three pictorial registers comprising at the top the wrought verse, "PETITION O may I seek in early youth What guards from future harms Religion Modesty and Truth For these have always charms" flanked by birds and stylized foliage above a wrought identification, "Worked by SARAH AMANDA DELIA CHARLOTTE KLEIN BRAINARD DONE IN thE 10 YEAR of hER AgE 1828" flanked by stylized butterflies, birds, flowers and foliage over a third pictorial band of flowers and foliage, the whole enclosed by a border of meandering flowers--16½in. high, 17in. wide
來源
Collection of Katherine Murphy