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HANNAH
TRECOTHICK |
is my name and with
my needle I wrought the same and if the workwoman had been better
she would have mended every letter Boston, New England December
anno Domini 1738
Hannah Trecothick's sampler |
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discussed and pictured in Bolton and
Coe's book American
Samplers (plate XIV), carries over a transatlantic tradition of working
the Lord's Prayer and the Creed in tablet form on a sampler.
Born in 1724 to Mark and Hannah Trecothick, certainly hearty
Episcopalians of Boston, Hannah married James Iversin 1753. She
died in 1807. |
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Origin and date: Boston, 1738
Rated: Intermediate
Linen count and finished size: 35 count, 10"x21"
Stitches: Cross, satin, back
Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kit with cotton floss: $40.00
Kit with silk floss: $70.00
Graph only: $7.00
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