- Maker
- Nissly, Mary (age 16) (born 1824)
- Date made
- 1840
- Origin
- Rapho Township, PA US
- Stitches
- Cross,
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Predominent Motif
- 3 alphabets. Below are Quaker motifs including birds, diamonds, 3 crowns, 2 feather stars, a carnation, 8 unknown floral motifs, eight pointed stars, carnation floral pot motifs, a peacock and a pea hen, two prancing deer, a table and chairs. In the center a motif with a crown on top and initials around it "O E H B D D E" (O edel Herz Bedenke dein Ende meaning "O Noble Heart consider your end) usually indicating the needle worker was from a Mennonite family.
- Inscription
- (At the top R): 1837 / (After the alphabets): Mary Nissly A Daughter of Martin Nissly and Anna / Nissly was Born the 17th day of June 1824 Rapho is my Station / Heave[n] is my dwelling place and Christ is my salvation when I / am dead and in my grave and all my bones are rotten when this you / See remember me or Else I Shall be Forgotten the rose is red the / levs are green the days are past which I hav Seen Mary Nisly / her Sampler workd in the 16th year of her age in the year of our / Lord Rapho Township Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania / April the 6th 1840 //
- Length Without Frame
- 11 1/2"
- Width Without Frame
- 15 1/2"
- Historical Owner
- #4197
- Owner
- Phillips Museum, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
- Owner Private
- Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College
