Caroline Quick's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1841
name: label: maker
content: Quick, Caroline
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler features two block alphabets with a lower case backward “j,” She included the following inscription:<br>
label: Description
content: “Bestow dear Lord upon our youth<br>The gift of saving grace<br>And let the seed of sacred truth<br>Fall in a fruitful place<br>Caroline Quick 1841”<br>
label: Description
content: Caroline Quick’s inscription is from a hymn, <i>Prayer for a Blessing</i> by English poet William Cowper (1731-1800). Stitching such a verse on her sampler was a way for Caroline to receive religious instruction. The sampler is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 22, weft 25/ in. The stitches used are cross, four-sided, double cross, queen, Algerian eye, and crosslet.
label: Description
content: Caroline Quick (c.1831) was the daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Quick and was born in Ulster County, Marlborough, New York. In the 1880 New York census she was living with George and Timna Quick Woolsey. Timna was a sister to Caroline, and George and Timna were the parents of donor Harriet Woolsey Gardner, Mrs. Daniel Gardner.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Marlboro
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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. Daniel Gardner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.H37549
label: catalog number
content: H37549
label: accession number
content: 115031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in; 44.1325 cm x 20.0025 cm