- Maker
- Hicks, Mehitable (age 7)
- Date made
- 1820
- Origin
- Little Compton, RI US
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 3 alphabets: each with 26 letters, one with an ampersand. Numbers 1-8. Various stitched lines. House at center bottom with trees on both sides. Wave border all four sides.
- Inscription
- HICKS / / This needle work of / mine can tell In my / youth was learned / well And by my elders / I was taught not to / spend my time for naught / Mehitable Hicks Samp / ler wrought in the 7th / year of her age 1820 //
- Original Frame
- Unframed
- Historical Owner
- #2003.0187
- Owner
- Little Compton Historical Society, Little Compton, RI
- Owner Private
- Little Compton Historical Society
