Elizabeth Mason's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1783
name: label: maker
content: Mason, Elizabeth
notes: label: Description
content: Three block alphabets. No "J"; numbers to 18 and to 9; alphabets and numbers colored in groups of two. Rows of lettering and numbers separated by geometric crossbands; also two wide crossbands; one geometric strawberry vine, and one geometric vine with free-style roses, with guide-lines drawn under roses. At bottom of sampler, stag and doe on hillocks, surrounded by birds, butterflies, trees, flowers, under angular garland; stag and doe have satin-stitched collars. Name and date appear in flower-shaped medallion hanging from garland. Border of band of sawtoothed satin stitch and geometric carnation vine on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, crosslet, stem, satin, Algerian eye, straight, bullion. THREAD COUNT: warp 36, weft 29/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "See How The Lillie<i>f</i>[s] Flour White And Fair<br>See How the Raven<i>f</i>[s] Fed From Heaven<i>f</i>[s] Air<br>
label: Description
content: Ari<i>f</i>[s]e Thou King of King<i>f</i>[s] Ari<i>f</i>[s]e And Reign<br>Except Thy Wor<i>f</i>[s]hip SprinG All Wor<i>f</i>[s]hip<i>f</i>[s] Vain<br>
label: Description
content: Elizabeth<br>Ma<i>f</i>[s]On her<br>WOrk Ma<br>de<br>in the 11<br>Year Of<br>her ag<br>1783"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Elizabeth Mason was probably from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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 Gertrude D. Webster
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E391808
label: catalog number
content: E391808
label: accession number
content: 71679
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: 18 1/4 in x 16 1/8 in; 46.355 cm x 40.9575 cm