Sampler with figure in landscape

1794

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Nabby Townsend

Sampler with figure in landscape

Nabby Townsend

Sampler with figure in landscape

1794

Physical Qualities Natural linen, silk embroidery threads, 16 1/2 x 12 in. (41.9 x 30.5 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Francis White, from the Collection of Mrs. Miles White, Jr.

Object Number 1973.76.351

Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1973; Nancy Brewster (Mrs. Frances White) by inheritance; Virginia Purviance Bonsal (Mrs. Miles White, Jr.).

BMA, 'The White Collection,' March 19 - June 2, 1974, no catalogue.

Anita Jones, BMA, 'The Accomplished Stitch: American Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection,' 5/11-7/20/97, no. 5.

Betty Ring, "Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers and Silk Embroideries 1650-1850", New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, p. 77, caption to fig. 76.

Inscribed: Embroidered at top of sampler is an alphabet and poem: 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQ/RSTUVWXYZ'; 'The faireft Flowers will foon decay/ Their fragrance lofe and splendid hue/ So youth and beauty fade away/ And vanifh like the morning dew'; Embroidered at the bottom of the sampler: 'Nabby Townfend's work wrought/ in the Eleventh year of her age./ 1795' (Note: The 'f's represent the archaic form of 's' used in the inscription.)