- Maker
- Barker, Sally (age 12)
- Date made
- 1800
- Origin
- Nantucket, MA US
- Stitches
- Cross, Herringbone, Eyelet, Queen, Chain
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 2 alphabets: one missing the J and Z the other just the J. An acrostic sampler: the first letter of each line is the next letter of the alphabet. This one goes from A to H. Various plants in urns, strawberry plants, small white sheep and small black collared dogs, birds. All done in an saw tooth stitched rectangle. Reversing arcaded strawberry and tulip border across the top and bottom. Greek key border down both sides. See #5078, 5086 and 5093 for nearly identical samplers done at the same school.
- Inscription
- All mortal men that live must surely die / But how or when is hid from human eye / Consider then thy few uncertain days / Delay no longer to amend thy ways / Engage thy heart to serve the Iord in Iove / For all his ways the ways of comfort prove / Grant to thyself no time for vain delight / Hate all thats wrong and love to do the wright / (At the center bottom): 1800 / To no peculiar lot of (above on R): life / Is happiness confind / but in a self approving heart / And firm contented mind / Sally Barker is my name / At 12 years old i mark / the same //
- Length Without Frame
- 13 3/8"
- Width Without Frame
- 12 5/8"
- Historical Owner
- #1937.0007.001 Gift of Annie Barker Folger
- Owner
- Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA
- Owner Private
- Nantucket Historical Association
- Name of School
- Nantucket School, Nantucket, MA
