- Maker
- Starbuck, Mary (age 10)
- Date made
- 1810
- Origin
- Nantucket, MA US
- Stitches
- Cross, Eyelet, Back
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Canvas
- Embroidery Thread
- Cotton
- Predominent Motif
- 7 alphabets: uppercase script missing the J. Numbers 1-19. Simple stitched lines. One blue bird. At the bottom, a basket of flowers, four small animals, four Nantucket trees, and a four pointed flower? on the L. Single cross stitch inner border and an undulating outer border all four sides.
- Inscription
- Plain as this Sampler was as plain we find / Unletterd unadorned the female mind / No fine Ideas fill the vacant soul / No graceful coloring animates the whole / With close attention carefully inwrought / Fair education prints the pleasing thought / Inserts the curious lines on proper ground / Compleats the work and scatters roses round / Mary Starbucks is my name / at 10 years old I worked the same / 1 8 1 0 //
- Length Without Frame
- 17 3/4"
- Width Without Frame
- 11 1/4"
- Historical Owner
- #2001.0020.001 Nantucket Historical Association purchase.
- Owner
- Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA
- Owner Private
- Nantucket Historical Association
