1750 - 1799
1751
Made by E. Credland Northern European,probably German 12.75" h x 9.5" w
The top has spot motifs including a Crucifix, two birds, religious symbols, a ladder and chair. The horizontal bands hold numbers and alphabets. Two flower vines at the bottom. And a single green border all around. Browns with a touch of black & blue. May have had green that faded to brown.
1752
Made by Ann Thirkill
11" H x 6" W
3 Alphabets, Band Sampler "Remember Thy Creator..." Date squeezed in bottom corner.
Extraordinary example of the type of needlework known as mirror image.
1760
Made my Mary Pillow, age 5, English 17.5" h x 11" w
Alphabet at the top. Three verses separated by horizotal borders.
"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."
"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised"
"During the time of life allotted me grant me good God my Health and liberty I'll beg no more if more thou art pleas'd to Give I'll thankfully the over plus receive'".
1763
by Mary Gardner
North Kingston, Rhode Island
10"L x 8"W
Alphabet, verse, large flowers, no border.
1769
Alphabet, Lord's Prayer, two rose baskets.
CA 1770s
18th Century - Probably Austrian
13" x 17"
Adam & Eve, Crucifixian, Lamb of God, Eagle, Peacock, Plants in Pots, Alphabets; no J; no U
1771
Made by Marian Dick
16.25" H x 9.25" W
Alphabets, numbers, English
I and J, U and V
inintials, crowns
Narrow Flower Vine Border
1776
Made by Sukey Stone
22.5" H x 7.5" W
Sukey was the daughter of Isaac an Estherstone, named for her Aunt Susannah Stone.
One alphabet, a large flower border at the bottom, a single line border all around. Black, Blue & Cream colors.
1777
Made by Ann Smelt
Silkwork Sampler framed in a modern wood veneer frame. Meandering strawberry border.
1779
By Mary Scott
1781
Button
1784
Ode To Peace
13.5" H x 9.5 " W
Poem, narrow border
1785
By Kitty Wray
10.75" x 7.75"
Praise God From Whom all Blessings Flow * Be Ye to Others Kind and True
Large Border, Vine Border
1786
Windmill Sampler
19" x 20"
This charming 18th Century sampler features a huge center house, windmill and he most charming schoolhouse! The sampler is initialed "CW" and dates 1786. A huge, visually commanding house illuminates the center of the sampler along with a charming schoolhouse featuring a checkered foundation and leaning steeple. There are cherubs, a deer behind a gate, a lamb, yellow owl, dogs, tulips, basket, tree of life and more.
1790
Francoise Darmure
Arles France
School of the Visitation
7.5" x 12"
Alphabet no J, has U
Religious Motifs, Numbers
Date spelled in French
1790
By Agnes Richards
10" x 17"
Red and Green
Alphabets has J and U
Trees, Crown
1790-1810
24" W x 36" H
Cross, Adam & Eve, Verses, Spot Motifs, 4 side vine border
1791
By Ann Baker
15.5" x 17.5"
1795
Sampler by Mary Orrell
Family Register
17" x 13"
"Let children that would fear the Lord hear what their teachers say with reverance meet their parents word and with delight obey."
1796
Made by Frances Dorothy Pender
