Phebe Esther Copp's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1822
name: label: maker
content: Copp, Phebe Esther
notes: label: Description
content: Three block alphabets of 26 letters and numbers to 13; simple geometric crossbands separate these rows. Below verse, centered tree flanked by rose bushes and two framed texts. In verse, words colored alternately with name and date worked in black; in two framed texts, all lettering worked in black. Width of sampler full fabric width, selvedge to selvedge. Border of geometric strawberry-vine and cross-stitched zig-zag, with single rows of cross-stitch on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, Algerian eye, long-armed cross, petit point, rice. THREAD COUNT: warp 28, weft 30/in.<br>
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content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
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content: "Let the <i>f</i>[s]weet work of prayer and prai<i>f</i>[s]e employ my<br>Younge<i>f</i>[s]t breath Thu<i>f</i>[s] im prepared for longer day<i>f</i>[s] or<br>Fit for earlier death Phebe E<i>f</i>[s]ther Copp aged 8 1822<br>
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content: Better it is to be<br>of an humble Spirit<br>with the lowly<br>than to divide the<br>Spoil with the proud<br>
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content: This work I did<br> To let you See<br>What care my<br>Parents took of me"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
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content: Phebe Esther was born on November 9, 1813, to Samuel and Phoebe Haight Theall Copp in Stonington, Connecticut. The design of this sampler, made in 1822, when Phebe Esther was eight years old, is obviously based on a similar sampler made fifty-seven years earlier by her great-aunt Esther Copp. Phebe never married and died on February 3, 1837, in New York City. See Esther Copp's sampler.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
topic: label: depicted
content: Alphabets
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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 John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.H06591
label: catalog number
content: H06591
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 3/8 in x 21 3/8 in; 41.5925 cm x 54.2925 cm