Lydia Ann Garton's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1820
name: label: maker
content: Garton, Lydia Ann
notes: label: Description
content: Four block alphabets of 26 letters. Numbers to 14; two rows of initials "MG," "JG," "CG," "LAG,"; "RG," "AG," "WCG," and "JG." Two alphabets, numbers, and initials colored in pairs. All these rows separated by simple crossbands, and included in them, apple worked in pulled thread and patch of shaded florentine stitch; these rows separated from inscription by geometric strawberry crossband. Flanking inscription, two baskets of flowers. Border of geometric carnation vine on all four sides. Silk thread on cotton ground. STITCHES: cross, crosslet, queen, stem, satin, herringbone, eyelet, rice, tent, four-sided, outline, padded satin, Irish, pulled thread. THREAD COUNT: warp 26, weft 34/in.<br>
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content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "O blest Religion heavenly fair<br>Thy kind thy healing power.<br>Can sweeten Pain alleviate care<br>And gild each gloomy hour.<br>
label: Description
content: Lydia Ann Garton was Born<br>April 4th AD 1811 Did this Work<br>in the 10th Year of her age AD 1820"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
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content: Lydia Ann was born on April 4, 1811, to Mark and Jane Cowgill Garton in Cumberland, New Jersey. The initials on her sampler are for her parents Mark and Jane, and for her and her siblings Charles, Lydia Ann, Rebecca, Ann, William Cowgill, and Jane. Lydia married William Murphy on June 20, 1833, in Cumberland, and they had five children—Sarah, Ann, John, Charles, and Mary. William was a glass blower, and they resided in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New Jersey, Cumberland
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13433
label: catalog number
content: T13433
label: accession number
content: 254791
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
label: Object Type
content: embroidering
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (ground fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/8 in x 12 3/8 in; 43.4975 cm x 31.4325 cm