Olive Brown's Sampler
name: label: maker
content: Brown, Olive
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Olive Brown, dating to c. 1799, is stitched in cross stitch with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 27, weft 29/ in. This sampler is embroidered as a memorial to George Washington. After stitching an alphabet in a beige color, Olive changed to black thread for the rest of the sampler to indicate mourning or death. The inscription is: GENERAL G / WASHINGT / ON PRES US / BN FEBRAUR / Y 22 1732 DEC / DECEMBER 14 1799 OLIVE / BROWN BORN / NOVEMR 7, 1782. Olive Brown was born November 7, 1782, to Benjamin and Esther Whittemore Brown in Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts. She married November 30, 1809, Dr. Nathaniel Howard (1783 - 1852) from Temple, New Hampshire. They had three children – Olive (1810 - 1846), Mary (1817-1889), and Nathaniel (1815 - ). Olive died March 12, 1820. See her daughter's Olive (TE*T18585) and Mary's (TE*T18587) samplers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Pope Meigs, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T18586
label: catalog number
content: T18586.000
label: accession number
content: 248268
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall ground)
label: Physical Description
content: silk and linen (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 6 1/8 in; 23.1775 cm x 15.5575 cm