- Maker
- Chadwick, Sarah (age 11)
- Date made
- 1777
- Origin
- Newport, RI US
- Stitches
- Cross, Satin, Stem, Eyelet,
- In Bolton & Co.
- No Verse #132 1752 Page 272
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 2 alphabets: uppercase block missing J, the U and V are transposed, uppercase script missing the J, U and X. Numbers to 10. A wide cross band with a large plant in the center with two facing blue birds. Flowering vine border terminating at the bottom with two facing yellow birds and at the top with a yellow butterfly.
- Inscription
- (Near the top): This Work In Hand MY Friends / May Have When I am Dead / And Laid In Grave / Sarah Chad / Wick Her Sampler Made In / The EleVenth Year OF Her age / (Near the bottom): Arise, Awake Your Lamps To Take And Do / No Longer Slumber You Must Then Turn / To Waite On Him Unto His Wedding Chamb (ber)sic. / / Sarah Chadwick Was Born January The 27 / 1765 And made this this sept 1777 / The Blooming Rose Doth soon Decay And I a / Las Must ware a way Though I am young it / May Be seen I May Be Cropt While I Am Green //
- Length Without Frame
- 17.2"
- Width Without Frame
- 13.6"
- Historical Owner
- PSNC.1713 Purchased
- Owner
- The Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, RI
- Owner Private
- The Preservation Society of Newport County
