Nancy Mary Lindley's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1800-1825
name: label: maker
content: Lindley, Nancy Mary
notes: label: Description
content: Five block alphabets; one script alphabet; numbers to 15. All alphabets colored in pairs or groups. Six narrow geometric crossbands. Verse in lower register flanked by two-story house and tree. Red cotton thread used only for "s" in "Lindleys" and for three small geometric motifs at bottom of sampler. Border of geometric zig-zag on all four sides. Silk and cotton embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, Algerian eye. THREAD COUNT: warp 39, weft 42/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "Nancy Mary Lindleys work done at the age of 8 years<br>
label: Description
content: Let virtue be my greatest care<br>And study my delight<br>So shall my day be always fair<br>And peaceable my night,"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Nothing is known about the life of Nancy Mary Lindley.
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 Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Sebenius, from the collection of his mother Mrs. C. Harold Sebenius
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14662
label: catalog number
content: T14662
label: catalog number
content: T.14662
label: accession number
content: 279148
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 16 in; 40.64 cm x 40.64 cm