Mary Ingersoll's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1830
label: associated dates
content: 1990-03-26
name: label: maker
content: Ingersoll, Mary
notes: label: Description
content: Man in fawn-colored fall-front trousers, short blue jacket decorated with faceted gilt beads, and tall dark hat. On his arm, lady wearing long dress with wide white collar and blue bonnet tied with long bonnet-strings; she carries parasol and reticule and wears necklace or chain of gilt beads. To right of couple, blue-domed building (temple?) with tall columns on hill above pond, with two deer and flowering bush; to left of couple large tree and under it, sheep and dog. In each upper corner, bluebird under grapevine; children's names enclosed in panel outlined by wave band. Grapes on vines in upper corners worked by coiling purple thread and tacking down each coil in two or three places. Border on all four sides, straight vine bearing roses and rose buds. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, crosslet, chain, four-sided, French knot. THREAD COUNT: warp 28, weft 28/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "FAMILY RECORD<br>
label: Description
content: Mr Levi Ingersoll was born Dec 26th 1775<br>Miss Sarah Hubbard was born Jan 2nd 1779<br>They were united in marriage Jan 31 1802<br>
label: Description
content: THEIR DESCENDANTS<br>
label: Description
content: Hannah Ingersoll was born Jan 30th 1803<br>Eliza Ingersoll was born Oct 30th 1804<br>Ann Ingersoll was born Nov 1st 1806<br>Henry H Ingersoll was born Feb 25th 1809<br>Charles Ingersoll was born Jan 23rd 1811<br>Jane Ingersoll was born July 1st 1815<br>Mary Ingersoll was born Sept 27th 1819 [last 2 numbers replaced or filled in later]<br>Sarah Ingersoll was born Feb 10th 1821 [last number replaced or filled in later]<br>
label: Description
content: By Miss Mary Ingersoll in the 9th year of her age New York 1830" [number 9 replaced or filled in later]<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Mary was born on September 27, 1819, to Levi and Sarah Hubbard Ingersoll in Pound Ridge, New York. She died unmarried on April 18, 1889.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Pound Ridge
label: associated place
content: United States: Michigan, Tecumseh
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
label: See more items in
content: Samplers
label: See more items in
content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Clarence and Dorothy M. Damon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0146.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0146.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
label: Other Terms
content: sampler; 1830
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: beads (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: tan ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/2 in x 17 1/2 in; 44.45 cm x 44.45 cm