Mary Taylor
Band Sampler
1739
Mary Taylor
Band Sampler
1739
Glee Krueger, "A Gallery of American Samplers". New York: Bonanza Books, 1984, p. 25.
Glee Kreuger, "New England Samplers to 1840." Sturbridge, Mass.: Old Sturbridge Village, 1978, fig.11.
Marcus Huish, "Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries." New York: Dover Publications, 1970, p. 81.
Betty RIng, "American Needlework Treasures." New York: E.P. Dutton and Museum of American Folk Art, 1987, p. 4.
Betty Ring, "Let Virtue Be a Guide to Thee: Needlework in the Education of Rhode Island Women, 1730-1830." Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1983, pp.64-67, illustration.
Inscribed: Worked in multicolored threads from the top are: an alphabet of 5/16" uppercase letters A-R (2 versions of A and F, no J)/S-Z (no U) and 1-1/2" numbers 1-10 (2versions of 3); an alphabet of 1/2" uppercase script letters including A-L (no I)/M-V (noU)/W-Z. Verse in 1/4" upper and lowercase letters: "It Be No Wonder That Men Turn To/Clay When Rocks and Stones And Monuments Decay"; a second verse, in 1/4" upper and lowercase letters letters: "Arise Awake Your Lamps To Take And/Do No Longer Slumber You Must Then/Trim To Waite On Him Unto His Wedding Chamber"; alphabet in 5/16" uppercase letters A-O (no J)/P-Z (no U); signature and date in 1/4" upper and lower-case letters "Mary Taylor Her Sampler Made In The/12 Year of Her Age 1740 Hast No Need/ To Tell Thy Miseries Will No Comfort/Bred Men Help The Most T--- Think Thou". Printed label on reverse: "G.J. ESSELEN/SUCCESSOR TO/MRS. J.C. White/19 Bromfield St. Boston, Mass." Also stick-on label with handwritten numbers: "3371 68/4". This label obscures remains of another printed label. Handwritten with ink on backing paper, "No. 1"; handwritten, with pencil, on backing paper, "(34)"; also an attempt to write out verse on front.[Removed when reframed 1997. Placed in curatorial folder.
