Sampler
- Object Name:
- Sampler
- Object ID:
- 2024.026
- Creator:
- Parker, Mehitabel (née Kimball) (1782-1852) -- Fiber Artist
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1795
- Description:
- Sampler. Sampler made by Mehitabel Kimball Parker (1782-1852) of Concord, New Hampshire in 1795. The sampler is stitched with a floral border and two girls wearing a pink and blue dress on a green field at the bottom edge. The stitched inscriptions read: "Youth is the season that is given / To store the mind with virtue fit for heaven / Then use it well nor misimProve one day / For fleeting minutes swiftly Pass away." and "Mehetable Kimbal. Born in / Concord January 25th 1782 wro- / ught this Sampler in the 13th year of her age 1795 - Finished Jan. 15".
- Material:
- Silk
Linen - Dimensions:
- H-20.5 W-17 inches
- Provenance:
- The sampler was transferred as a gift from the Vermont Historical Society. It was previously tranferred to VHS from the Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, VT, in 2022. Accession records from the Fairbanks Museum show that the museum appears to have purchased the sampler around 1980.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Vermont Historical Society
- People:
- Parker, Mehitabel (1782-1852)
- Subjects:
- School
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