CURRENT SELECTION OF ANTIQUE SAMPLERS

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Jane Brimblecom

Marblehead, Essex County,
Massachusetts, 1811

Russel Osborn Hunt

Mrs. Cranch’s Academy, Jamaica Plain,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1809 

Catherine Elizabeth Gray

Charles County,
Maryland, circa 1835

Maria Butler

Leominster, Massachusetts, 1809

Oval Sampler

England, circa 1790

Annes Perry

Elizabeth Town, Allegheny County
Pennsylvania, 1790

Ann Gardner

Glasgow,
Scotland, 1815

Motif Sampler initialed GK

Netherlands, 1802

Elisabeth Hierling

Burgerweeshuis Orphanage,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1820

Mildred Dixon

Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire,
England, 1823

Susan Porter

Warrenton, Fauquier County
Virginia, 1811

Vivienne I. Patrick

Sacramento, Sacramento County
California, 1871

Polly Loring

Hingham, Plymouth County
Massachusetts, 1787

Julia Ann Smith

Gorham, Ontario County
New York, 1819

Sally Ross

Ipswich, Essex County
Massachusetts, 1809

Mary Bear

Leacock, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, 1836

Sarah Smedley

Chester County
Pennsylvania, 1812

Sarah Eastman

Salisbury, Essex County,
Massachusetts, 1811

Arletta C. Sturgis

age 7, Brooklyn
New York, circa 1830

Mary Endicott

Massachusetts, circa 1820
Provenance: Susan B. Swan Collection

Elizabeth West

England, 1790

Sarah Garwood

Medford, Burlington County
New Jersey, 1808

Ann Elizabeth Hall

Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, 1830

Mary Bowker

Pembroke, Plymouth County
Massachusetts, 1813

Caroline Darling

Marlborough, Middlesex County,  
Massachusetts, 1819

Margaret Harry

York, Pennsylvania, 1827

Maryetta Smith

Boston, Massachusetts, 1826

Fatima Cushing

Scituate, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts, circa 1817

Sarah E. Sanford, Union Hall Academy

Jamaica, Queens, New York, circa 1818

Dechado

Miagutlan, Oaxaca,
Mexico, 1813

Lucy Harris

Miss Mayo’s School
Portland, Maine, 1817

Alice G. Updike

East Greenwich, Kent County,
Rhode Island, 1820
 

Sarah Wills

Pine Grove School,
Burlington County, New Jersey, 1811

Beadwork, Prince of Wales Heraldic Badge

England, circa 1850

Rebecca Longley

Waterford, Oxford County, 
Maine, circa 1812 to 1815

Rosa Lópes

Student of Doña Mara Alvarado, 
Spain, 18th century

Bird and Berries Needlework Picture

England, early 19th century

Jane Alexander

Mid-Atlantic States, circa 1815

Florentina Tabiel de Andrade i Comesana

Spain, 1839

Rafaela Escasena

Under the instruction of Dona Maria G.Z.
Spain, circa 1850

Sophia Evans

Three Royal Naval Ships: Hope, Nelson and Charlotte,
England, circa 1815

Manuela Mozo

Spain, 1826

Anna Landis

Fallsington Boarding School, 
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1803

Serafina Escacena

Worked at the Royal Academy for Young Ladies, 
under the instruction of Doña Mrs. Ana Maria Villazon y Mazamoro, Spain, 1836

Maria de los Dolores Martinez

Spain, dated 1823

Antonia Castillo

Cadiz Free School of The Royal Society,
under the direction of Doña Joaquina Sanchez
Spain, 1829

Exotic Bird on a Basket of Berries,

 England, circa 1850

Catharine Almedia Rankin

New York, New York, 
circa 1830

Ruth Ames

Woburn, Middlesex County
Massachusetts, 1811

Band Sampler,

MEK, United Kingdom, 1732

(left) front of 1732 sampler initialled MEK
(right) reverse of 1732 sampler initialled MEK
“The Wheat Sheaf Inn Posting House and Family Inn”,

England, circa 1840

Hussif or Sampler Pocket, “A Gift to Jane Hankinson”

 England, 1830

Caroline Emerson

United States, 1801

Caroline McVaugh,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1820

Les Pensionnaires Pieuse,

France, circa 1820

Sarah Irwin

Probably Pennsylvania, United States, 1820

Ann Garrett

Bocking, Essex County,
England, 1802

Mary Tate

Louth, Lincolnshire, 
England, 1815

Mercy Kemp,

Yalding, Kent, England, 1814

Susanna Hickson,

Leicestershire, England, 1783

Eliza Williams

England, 1859

Ann Stone

England, 1820

Elizabeth McCoy,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1813

Mary Donnoghue,

Boston, Massachusetts, 1827

Mary M. Boyden

Ashford, Windham County,
Connecticut, 1827

Mary Jane Sarrell,

“The Watch”, England, 1849