Jane Winter Price's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1828-1835
name: label: maker
content: Price, Jane Winter
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler features a footed bowl on a square base, holding a large bouquet of flowers. One flower has been shaded with dark red and orange-red paint over the stitches. Jane included the inscription:
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content: <br>“These violets scent the distant gale;<br>They grew in lowly bed,<br>So real worth new merit gains,<br>By diffidence o’erspread:<br>Jane Winter Price<br>But as the fragrant myrtle wreath,<br>Will all the rest survive:<br>So shall the mental graces still,<br>Through endless ages live.”<br>
label: Description
content: To accompany her large bouquet of flowers, Jane Price used stanzas 2 and 9 from a verse accompanying a nosegay found in an English reader published in 1816. A small bouquet of flowers often given as a gift was known as a nosegay. The sampler is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 25, weft 28/ in. The stitches used are chain, stem, surface satin, cross, outline, herringbone, crosslet, and French knot.
label: Description
content: Jane Winter was born on March 17, 1818, to Richard and Catherine Winter Dunnington Price in Charles County, Maryland. She married Josiah Woods McHenry (b. May 14, 1815 in Christianburg, Virginia) on February 27, 1849, in Shelby, Alabama. They moved to Union Springs, Arkansas and had four children - Catherine Price (1850-), Barnabas Middleton (1852-), George Richard (1854-), and Jane Cornelia (1856-). By the 1870 census they were living in Homer, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, and she died there on January 11, 1899.
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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 Miss G. Ruth McHenry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12732
label: catalog number
content: T12732
label: accession number
content: 241104
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/8 in x 16 7/8 in; 43.4975 cm x 42.8625 cm