A WOOL ON LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

WROUGHT BY JANE ELIZABETH MAXWELL, COATESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1840

Details

A WOOL ON LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Wrought by Jane Elizabeth Maxwell, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, circa 1840
Worked in green, blue, yellow, red, pink, brown, white and purple threads centering flower baskets, trees, lambs and the inscription Jane Elizabeth Maxwell's sampler within a foliate surround enclosed by a ruched ribbon border
27½in. high, 31½in. wide

Provenance

Whitcraft Auction, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 21 September 1980.

Lot Essay

Jane Elizabeth Maxwell's spectacular Victorian sampler is unmistakably related to earlier Chester County samplers by its trio of white sheep. They occur in similar form and arrangement on exceptionally large Chester County samplers worked between 1820 and 1837. See Antiques (December 1984), p 430, pls. III and IV; also Ring, Girlhood Embroidery, Vol. II (New York, 1993), p. 401, figs. 442 and 443.

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