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Geffroy Family Print-work Silk Embroidery, Mary Balch School
Amongst the excellent silk embroideries worked at the Balch School in Providence, Rhode Island is a group of print-work memorials, worked between 1810 and 1820. They feature elaborate monuments without figures and were all accomplished, according to ...
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Dutch Motif Sampler Initialed LVG
This outstanding sampler is one of the most beautifully worked Dutch samplers we have come across in years. The composition, which is centered on a carnation blossom and other sprigs emerging from a small cornucopia, is very pleasing and the many ass...
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Adelia Ann Goshorn
Adelia Ann Goshorn, the daughter of a dry goods merchant, Nicholas Goshorn and his wife Lorenia (Cutter) Goshorn, was born on June 24, 1824. She was their eldest daughter and was baptized in December at the Old Stone Methodist Church, the first churc...
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Mary Howe
Mary Howe worked this sampler in 1832; a handsome pictorial piece featuring a large 16th century manor house on a sloping lawn. The castle-like house, with its crenellated roof and red banners waving, sits on a lustrous lawn of brilliant green satin ...
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Delaware Silk Embroidery
American schoolgirls in the Federal period worked stunning silk embroidered pictures that would hang in the stylishly decorated parlors of their parents' homes. Often large in scale and always indicating the advanced talents of their makers, these pi...
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