WROUGHT BY JERUSHA LYMAN (B.C. 1783), NEW ENGLAND, DATED 1792

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A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
WROUGHT BY JERUSHA LYMAN (B.C. 1783), NEW ENGLAND, DATED 1792
signed, dated and inscribed Jerusha / Lyman / 1792 / Aged Eight Years (lower center)
15 ¼ x 12 ½ in. (sight)
Executed circa 1792.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 22 June 1995, lot 57

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Jerusha Lyman was born in 1783 in Northampton, Massachusetts and was daughter to William Lyman (1855-1811) and Jerusha (Welles) Lyman (1760-1803). William graduated from Yale College in 1776 and served in the Revolutionary War. After the war, he entered politics, eventually becoming a congressman. In 1816, Jerusha married Bishop Jackson Kemper (1789-1870) of Wisconsin.

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