Physical Qualities
Linen ground, wool embroidery threads, ink, watercolor(?), 15 1/2 x 13 1/4 x 1 in. (39.4 x 33.7 x 2.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number
2012.444
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2012; Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Baltimore
Inscribed: Written by hand in pencil (?) on back of wood frame: "No. 1/Ann Barber her Work/done at Buckingham School/in the year 1790 and in the tenth/year of her Age/Fortitude one of the/four Cardinal virtues" Written in ink by hand on a paper attached to the back of frame with plastic and scotch tape: "Ann and Susanna Barber daughters of John Barber (1760-1817) lived/at Le Halle Place West Adderbury,/Oxon and worked the samplers in/1790 at Buckingham School./Susanna (born 1782) became the heiress of her brother John (1779-1854)/and married Robert Wells."
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