Nancy Batchelder's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1800-1825
name: label: maker
content: Batchelder, Nancy
notes: label: Description
content: Block upper-case alphabet of 26 letters, plus additional letters "NSABCDMHW." Three block lower-case alphabets of 26 letters. Script alphabet to "W" ("XYZ" in lower part of sampler, with inscription). Numbers 1 to 0 and vowels follow inscription. All these rows separated by simple crossbands. At bottom of sampler, flowering plant with birds, flanked by large urns of flowers and small flowering plants; much of this section worked in crinkled silk thread. Guidelines under some flowers and stems. Border of geometric flowering vine edged by narrow bands. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: satin, cross, stem, crosslet, chain, eyelet, surface satin, straight, encroaching satin, roumanian. THREAD COUNT: warp 22, weft 22/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "Youth like the sPring in verdues clad InraPtu'd beauties they disPlay<br>Their blooming smiles Profusive shed Which win the heart but fade awaY<br>
label: Description
content: Nancy Batchelder aged twelve years aeiou wy<br>
label: Description
content: Whilst You ingraVe with Silken art<br>Let Virtue occuPy Your heart"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Nothing is known about the life of Nancy Batchelder.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: World
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. Marion J. McLean
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T08816
label: catalog number
content: T8816
label: accession number
content: 164484
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 17 3/8 in; 41.91 cm x 44.1325 cm