Mary E. Roberdeau's Sampler
name: label: maker
content: Roberdeau, Mary Elizabeth
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Mary E. Roberdeau dating to c. 1805, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 30, weft 30/ in. The stitches used are cross, crosslet, Algerian Eye, and herringbone. The inscription is: “Mary E Roberdeau A D.” Mary Elizabeth Roberdeau was born March 30, 1795, to Lt. Col. Isaac (1763-1829) and Susan Shippen Blair (1771-1843) Roberdeau in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She died unmarried in Philadelphia, on November 15, 1833, and was buried in the burying-ground of the Ten Presbyterian Church, Walnut Street, but subsequently removed to Woodlands Cemetery. Mary may have stitched her sampler while they lived in New Jersey. On October 23, 1832, she received a thank you letter from John Quincy Adams for a purse she made for him. See her sister Susan's sampler TE* H35625B.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Germantown
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Roberdeau Buchanan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.H35625.A
label: catalog number
content: H035625.00A
label: accession number
content: 97135
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 (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 7 3/8 in; 20.955 cm x 18.7325 cm