Mary Eddy's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1816
name: label: maker
content: Eddy, Mary
notes: label: Description
content: The verse that Mary Eddy included on her sampler was written by an English poet named William Oland (1723-85) around 1763. It was probably selected by her teacher, and the verses were generally chosen to express the ideals to which young ladies should aspire to, according to her contemporary society. <br>
label: Description
content: “The Contra<i>f</i>[s]t<br>Virtue alone has that to give,<br>Which makes it joy to die or live<br>But vice can only that supply<br>Which makes it pain to live or die.”<br>
label: Description
content: The sampler is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 27, weft 32/in. The stitches used are cross, crosslet, tent, Algerian eye, and stem.
label: Description
content: Mary Eddy was born on April 16, 1804, to Samuel and his second wife Martha Wheaton Eddy in Providence, Rhode Island. Samuel Eddy’s first wife was Betsy Bucklin. (See Betsy Bucklin’s sampler.) Mary married William Chase (1786-1875) as his second wife on March 15, 1854. They did not have any children.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Samplers
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content: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0161.01
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0161.01
label: accession number
content: 2008.0161
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 11/16 in x 8 1/2 in; 32.1945 cm x 21.59 cm