Sarah Art, 1806. #SA000263

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Sarah Art, 1806

Sampler Archive ID:	SA000263
Maker:	Sarah Lees Art
Maker Birthplace:	Pilottown, Sussex County, Delaware
Maker Age:	years
Place Made:
Year Made:	1806
Decade Made:	1800-1809
Owner:	Winterthur Museum
Accession Number:	1985.0052
Object Credit:	Contact Winterthur Registrar's Office for Credit Line
Contributor:	Winterthur Museum

Physical Characteristics

Object type:

Sampler

Needlework techniques:

Shape:

Tall rectangle

Object Dimensions:

16.00 H x 14.20 W (inches)

Framed Dimensions:

H x W (inches)

Borders:

Decorative Bands:

None

Dividing Lines:

None

Enclosures:

Wreath, diamond w/decorative corners
Cartouches: Yes

Text types:

Personal name, Personal initials, Verse, Memorial

Text medium:

Stitched

Click to View Text Transcription:

   an
 Emblem
   of
  Love

While beauty and  
pLeasure are now in their  
Prime and
FOLLY & FaShION  
expect our WhOLE tIME  
AH Let not those 
phantoms our wishes 
engage let us LIVE so in Youth 
that we BLush not in age

ThOugh the vain and the 
gaY MaY attend us a while 
Yet Let not their fLattrY  
our Prudence BeguILe 
Let us Covet those th 
WILL never decaY nor  
LISten to all that dece  
ivers can saY"

B-Art S-Art I-Art  
H-Art I-Art M-A Lees

Sarh Art her Work duN at LUIS in [stitches removed] the
fifth sep**r 1806

Motifs/Symbols:

Scenes/Pictures:

None

Ground:

Linen

Ground Condition:

Wear:
Cleanliness: Stained
Loss: none noted

Thread:

Silk

Thread Colors Front:

Gold, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red, White, Yellow

Thread Condition:

Borders: Intact
Text: Slight loss
Symbols: Intact

Other Materials:

None

Stitch Types:

Cross, Chain, Long and short, Queen or rococo, Satin, Stem, Straight

Thread Count:

Vertical:
Horizontal:

Maker History

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Birth Name:	object, ancestry.com family trees
Birthdate:	Winterthur files
Birth Location:	Winterthur files County: Sussex State: Delaware
Death Date:	cemetery records
Death Location:	cemetery records
Religion:	Uncertain
Parents:	ancestry.com family trees	family trees	cemetery records
	Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1700-1821	ancestry.com family trees	family trees
Marriages:
	Spouse: cemetery records	Birth: cemetery records	Death: cemetery records
	Date: family trees	Place:

Children:

Object History

Previous Owners:
Conservation:
Exhibitions:
Literature:	Author(s): Lynne Anderson, Gloria Seaman Allen Title: Wrought with Careful Hand: Ties of Kinship on Delaware Samplers Publication/Publisher: Biggs Museum of American Art & Sampler Consortium Date: 2014 Author(s): Susan Burrows Swan Title: Delaware Samplers Publication/Publisher: Delaware Antiques Show Catalogue Date: 1985 Author(s): Susan Burrows Swan Title: Delaware Samplers Publication/Publisher: Delaware Antiques Show Catalogue Date: 1985

Object Details

Sarah Art, 1806

Physical Characteristics

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