Sampler
- Object Name:
- Sampler
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.62
- Creator:
- Norcross, Dorothy (1824-1898)
- Place of Origin:
- Farmington, ME
- Date:
- circa 1835
- Description:
- Marking Sampler. Attributed to Dorothy Norcross (1825-1898), Farmington, ME; c. 1835. Embroidered with mostly cross stitches in cotton thread on a plain-woven linen ground fabric. Three alphabets: first, fancy block capital letters; second, large-scale script capital letters; third, lower-case letters, followed by the inscription, "Dorothy Norcross." At the bottom is a very simple outline of a gable-end house, four stick trees, and two bird. Except for one line of half cross (or slant) stitches between lines of alphabets, the sampler is entirely cross-stitched. All four edges are hemmed. Colors are shades of brown to cream, and two shades of blue.
- Material:
- Textile
Linen
Silk - Dimensions:
- H-13.6 W-9.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro) between 1895 and 1913.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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