- Maker
- Mansfield, Nancy (age 11)
- Date made
- 1801
- Origin
- ME US
- Stitches
- Cross, Stem, Satin
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 2 alphabets: uppercase script missing the J and U. Various narrow cross bands and two very wide ones. All done in a stitched rectangle. At the bottom a scene with a couple, a child and nursemaid(?), another woman and man. A large centered tree and various animals. An urn on the R. Reversing arcaded border up both sides and across the top.
- Inscription
- (At the top): Our parents exert a prudent care / To read our infant minds with proper care / And wisely store the memory by degrees / With wholesome learning yet acquired with ease / (On the L): Nancy Mansfield Born / January 23 / 1791 in the eleventh year of my age (On the R): In the eleventh year / of my age AD / 1802 //
- Length Without Frame
- 59cm
- Width Without Frame
- 44cm
- Historical Owner
- 86-547 Gift of Adela Barnes Ware, 1919
- Owner
- Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME
- Owner Private
- Maine Historical Society
