Anzolette Hussey's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1821
name: label: maker
content: Hussey, Anzolette
notes: label: Description
content: Three block alphabets of 26 letters (one incomplete); one script alphabet to "V"; no "J"; numbers to 9. Alphabets and numbers colored in pairs or groups with all rows separated by simple geometric crossbands. At bottom of sampler, pair of birds on trees and pair of urns with flowers. Border of simple geometric meandering band on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on dark green linsey-woolsey ground; warp is blue linen and weft is green wool. STITCHES: cross, satin, hem. THREAD COUNT: warp 24, weft 34/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscription:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "Anzolette Hussey Aged<br>9 Years Nov 7th 1821"<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Anzolette was born on April 7, 1812, to Captain Andrew (1783–1861) and Mary Tredick Hussey in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She married Ebenezer Knight on June 15, 1835, and they had five daughters—Mary, Ariadne, Hannah E., Sarah K., and Abby. Anzolette died on November 20, 1895, in Washington, D.C., but is buried in Portsmouth. This sampler is very different from her other one and was probably worked at a different school. In 1827, at the age of fourteen, she was a student in the First Female School of Portsmouth. Throughout her life she used two different spellings for her first name. See Annzalette Hussey for her other sampler.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New Hampshire, Portsmouth
topic: label: depicted
content: Alphabets
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Samplers
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Abby Knight McLane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.H33960
label: catalog number
content: H33960
label: catalog number
content: H. (/) 33960
label: accession number
content: 63786
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linsey-woolsey (ground fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/8 in x 10 in; 33.3375 cm x 25.4 cm