- Maker
- Coffin, Lydia
- Date made
- ca. 1790
- Origin
- Nantucket, MA (?) US
- Stitches
- Cross, Satin, Stem,
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Cotton
- Predominent Motif
- Sampler is done in three panels. Upper panel if filled with motifs of trees, butterflies, two baskets of flowers, birds, butterflies and two small dogs. The middle panel has three large flower arrangements on the L in a basket, on the R in a cornucopia, and in a wreath style in the center. Two large butterfly motifs. The bottom panel has a hanging flower arrangement on L and R and in the center a three flower plant. Arcaded carnation border all four sides. (This is a beautifully executed sampler, perhaps done at a school on the mainland).
- Inscription
- (Verse 1): Plain as this Sampler was, as plain we find, / Unletter'd unadorn'd the Female Mind, / No fine Ideas fill the vacant Soul, / No graceful Colouring animates the whole. / (Verse 2): 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. (Between verse 1 and 2): Lydia Coffin's Work //
- Length Without Frame
- 25 1/2"
- Width Without Frame
- 21 3/4"
- Historical Owner
- #1971.0062.007 Gift of Robert M. Waggaman
- Owner
- Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA
- Owner Private
- Nantucket Historical Association
