- Maker
- Wiggin, Mary
- Date made
- 1797
- Origin
- Newburyport, MA US
- Stitches
- Cross, Satin, Slanted Gobelin, Stem, Queen's, Rice, Seed, Montenegrin Cross, Straight, Long-and-short, Irish.
- In Bolton & Co.
- Yes Page 86 Verse 657
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 3 alphabets; all missing the J and two also missing the U. Two fruited apple trees at the bottom with an centered urn with flowers. Two green hills with three lambs. Conventional border across the top and down both sides.
- Inscription
- (On the L): Remark this truth / Enough to know / (On R): Virtue in youth / Is bliss below. / (Across): Seek virtue, and of that pofsefst. To Providence resign the rest. / (at the bottom): Mary Wiggin her Sampler Wrought in the Year 1797
- Length Without Frame
- 21 3/8"
- Width Without Frame
- 18 1/4"
- Original Frame
- Unframed
- Historical Owner
- #1969-288-18 Whitman Sampler Collection, Gift of Pet, Inc. 1969
- Bolton & Co. Page
- 86 Verse #657
- Owner
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Owner Private
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
