Needlework Sampler, "Dorcas Bradley 1812," Delaware, stitched with silk threads on a linen ground, with a defined central panel with three rows of alphabets over a pious verse, the maker's name and date flanked by undulating blossoms above a solidly worked landscape with two rabbits beside a flowering bush, the panel surrounded by a wide border with central vase of flowers, butterflies, grape clusters, flowers, and a bird, (imperfections), 19 x 16 1/4 in., in a later molded wood frame. Literature: This sampler is similar to some illustrated in Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers, Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850, by Betty Ring, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993, Vol. II, pp. 494-97. Ring writes: "An impressive and entirely cohesive group of samplers was worked between 1811 and 1835 by girls from Maryland, Delaware, and probably Pennsylvania. These samplers characteristically have a very wide, all-enveloping fruit and floral border, which rises from a center basket or a large rose and encloses a sharply defined center panel. Within it are one to four alphabets, a verse, and the maker's name and date, usually above a solid scene containing a central tree flanked by paired sheep or rabbits, and large butterflies."
Needlework Sampler, "Dorcas Bradley 1812," Delaware, stitched with silk threads on a linen ground, with a defined central panel with three rows of alphabets over a pious verse, the maker's name and date flanked by undulating blossoms above a solidly worked landscape with two rabbits beside a flowering bush, the panel surrounded by a wide border with central vase of flowers, butterflies, grape clusters, flowers, and a bird, (imperfections), 19 x 16 1/4 in., in a later molded wood frame. Literature: This sampler is similar to some illustrated in Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers, Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850, by Betty Ring, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993, Vol. II, pp. 494-97. Ring writes: "An impressive and entirely cohesive group of samplers was worked between 1811 and 1835 by girls from Maryland, Delaware, and probably Pennsylvania. These samplers characteristically have a very wide, all-enveloping fruit and floral border, which rises from a center basket or a large rose and encloses a sharply defined center panel. Within it are one to four alphabets, a verse, and the maker's name and date, usually above a solid scene containing a central tree flanked by paired sheep or rabbits, and large butterflies."
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