- Maker
- Child, Marian (age 14)
- Date made
- 1820
- Origin
- Shelburne MA US
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 3 alphabets: each complete one with ampersand. Numbers 1-12. Various motifs of flying white doves, perched birds, fir trees, windmills, small dogs, flowers, and strawberries. Arcaded strawberry border across the top and the bottom with a small flowered border up both sides. A White Dove sampler.
- Inscription
- (In the center): Now in the cold grave is Marian sleeping / Unfinished the work which her fingers began / While we finish her task amidst sorrow and weeping / We'll think of the frailty of shortlived man. (In a cartouche at the bottom): Marian Childs / AE 14 1820 (Note: this sampler was finished by someone else after Marian passed away).
- Owner
- Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA
- Owner Private
- Historic Deerfield
- Name of School
- Deerfield, MA