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CATHARINE
SPANGLER 1779 |
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This is an American sampler displaying
all of those features that make our indigenous samplers so appealing:
a naive freshness, an unschooled layout, subtle color palette,
and an exuberant and disproportionate pictorial scene with people
as large as houses. Formerly in the collection of the Philadelphia
Museum of Art, the sampler was recently deaccessioned and via
The Scarlet Letter is now in the collection of Lorraine Mootz of
Germany. It was made in Philadelphia and is related to Fig. 391
in Betty Ring's Girlhood
Embroidery. |
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Origin and date: Pennsylvania, 1799
Rated: Intermediate
Linen count and finished size: 30 count, 16-1/2"x18"
Stitches: Queen, cross, satin, stem
Source: Deaccessioned Philadelphia Museum of Art,
now in a private collection
Kit with cotton floss: $45.00
Kit with silk floss: $92.00
Graph only: $7.00
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