Elizabeth Throckmorton's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1804-1806
name: label: maker
content: Throckmorton, Elizabeth
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler features a two story house with windows and two chimneys on a stepped hill with grazing sheep. The stepped hill can be found on samplers from Philadelphia, western Maryland and New Jersey. There is a center angel and two apple baskets are on either side above the inscription. The motif of an angel means a messenger of God and the apple baskets often represent fertility and wealth. There is a three-sided geometric border, with queen stitch strawberries and leaves. (a more difficult stitch) The sampler is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 28, weft 28/in. The stitches used are cross, queen, satin, and straight.
label: Description
content: Elizabeth Throckmorton was born on October 18, 1795, in Monmouth County, New Jersey to Holmes (c.1759 –1821) and Susannah Forman (1762-1820) Throckmorton. Her father served in the American Revolution for three years. She married John Britton on November 18, 1813, and they had three children - John, Mary, and Catharine. Her husband John died c.1822-1823. She married Tobias Worrel on October 26, 1824, and they had a daughter Jane. According to the 1840 census they were then living in Des Moines, Iowa.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey
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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 from Mrs. Katherine Stahmer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0477.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0477.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0477
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
label: Other Terms
content: sampler; ca 1805
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 3/4 in x 13 1/2 in; 34.925 cm x 34.29 cm