Esther Tincom's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1764-1774
name: label: maker
content: Tincom, Esther
notes: label: Description
content: Three block alphabets. One script alphabet; no "J"; "V" and "U" reversed. Numbers to 9; all rows of alphabets, inscription, and verse separated by simple geometric crossbands. Two wider crossbands of birds, trees, plants, strawberries, flowers. Above alphabets, angular arcade with three angels (?). Lower third of sampler contains landscape with hillocks and strawberries, running stag and two dogs, shepherdess and sheep, three flowering trees, parrot and hummingbird. Border of free-style flowering vine across top and down both sides, with single row of marking cross along each side of border. Brown guidelines under free embroidery in landscape and border. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, marking cross, satin, French knot, tent, long-armed cross, outline, stem, chain, Roumanian, bullion. THREAD COUNT: warp 35, weft 38/in.<br>
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content: <B>Inscription:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "ESTHer Tincom IS MY Name and England IS MY Nation<br>Boston IS MY dwelling Place and Christ IS MY Salvation<br>When I am dead and in my grave and all my bones are rotten<br>When This You <i>f</i>[s]ee remember Me That I Mant be for 12<br>[gotten Do]ne in the 10 Year of MY age 3456789"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Information from the donor included the following: "brought from Boston, around the Horn in 1850 and William Patch saved the sampler from the San Francisco fire."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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 William Young Patch.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11099
label: catalog number
content: T11099
label: accession number
content: 200253
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: 20 in x 15 5/8 in; 50.8 cm x 39.6875 cm