- Maker
- Walker, Bridget (age 12)
- Date made
- 1795
- Origin
- Concord, NH US
- Stitches
- Cross, Satin
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 2 alphabets: lowercase missing J. Numbers 1-7 and 8-18. Various stitched lines and cross bands. Motifs of a bird and at the bottom an urn with flowers, two animals, one in white one in black, baskets of flowers. All done in a cross stitch rectangle. A floral and vine inner border with an outer undulating border on both sides and across the top.
- Inscription
- Bridget Walker her samPler / wrought in the 12th year of / her age 1795 / Plain as this canvass was / as plain we find, Unlettered Unadorned the female mind / No fine ideas fill the vacant / soul no graceful colouring animates the whole With / close attention carefully / inwrought, Fair education / paints the pleasing thought / Inserts the curious line on / proper ground, Completes / the whole, and scatters flowers around. //
- Length Without Frame
- 21.2"
- Width Without Frame
- 16.7"
- Historical Owner
- #2012.030.01 Gift of Klaudia S. Shepard
- Owner
- New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH
- Owner Private
- New Hampshire Historical
