WORKED BY JENNET AVERY (B. 1812), EAST HAMPTON, DATED 1821

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A SILK PICTORIAL SAMPLER ON LINEN
WORKED BY JENNET AVERY (B. 1812), EAST HAMPTON, DATED 1821
Inscribed A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deer or else not taste of the Pierian Spring: A shallow draught intoxicates the brain But drinking largely sobers us again. and inscribed Wrought by Jennet Avery E. Hampton Au. 20. 1821. aged .9 along the bottom border.
12½ in. high, 15¾ in. wide (sight)

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Lot Essay

Jennet Avery, baptized in Easthampton, Massachusetts, 28 June 1812 worked this needlework sampler in 1821. The poem quoted in the samples comes from Alexander Pope (1688-1744) titled An Essay on Criticism written in 1709. She married Spencer Janes on 20 October 1831 (Additional information provided by Carol and Stephen Huber).

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