- Maker
- Humphrey, Cylenda (age 10)
- Date made
- 1824
- Origin
- Weymouth, MA US
- Stitches
- Cross, Detatched Chain, Chain, Satin, Outline, Herringbone, Slanted Straight.
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 3 alphabets: 26 letters in center of sampler in a stitched rectangle. One wide strawberry cross band. Across the bottom large trees on L & R sides with a large basket of flowers in the center, motifs of birds, strawberries, flowers. Reversing arcaded inner border and a saw tooth outer border across the top and down both sides with a small blue bird in each upper corner.
- Inscription
- Child of summer lovely rose * in thee what blushing beauty glows / But ere to * morrows setting sun * / Thy beauty fades thy form is gone / Cylenda Humphrey Aged 10 Years July 1824 //
- Length Without Frame
- 17.3"
- Width Without Frame
- 16.3"
- Original Frame
- Unframed
- Historical Owner
- #1924.008 Gift of E. Smith Tenney
- Owner
- New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH
- Owner Private
- New Hampshire Historical Society
