Jemima Gorham's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1790
name: label: maker
content: Gorham, Jemima
notes: label: Description
content: Two block alphabets, one with 26 letters and one with no "J"; "V" and "U" reversed; numbers to 12. Landscape with gentleman and two ladies; gentleman wears short coat, knee breeches, and wide hat, and carries a walking stick. One lady wears flowered dress; the other wears striped dress and both wear caps or hats. Hill, tree, and flowering bush on lawn, and small leaping dog. Overhead, clouds and trumpeting angel. Border has wide free-style meandering vine with various flowers. Brown guidelines under center scene and floral border. Just below verse, five rows of staggered cross stitch cover seam where two pieces of ground fabric join. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, crosslet, petit point, chain, stem, outline, queen. THREAD COUNT: warp 26, weft 32/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
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content: "Let <i>f</i>[s]potle<i>f</i>[s]s innocence and truth<br>My every action guide<br> And guard my unexperienced Youth<br>From vanity and pride<br>
label: Description
content: Jemima<br>Gorham born<br> august 28 1775<br>made this sampler<br>in Bristol 1790<br>at Mrs. ushers<br> School"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
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content: Jemima was born on August 29, 1775, to Isaac and Sarah Thomas Gorham in Bristol, Rhode Island. She was the oldest of nine children, and her father died at sea at the age of 48. Jemima married Nicholas Peck as his second wife on October 1, 1797, and died on November 7, 1798, in Bristol, shortly after the birth of their daughter, Jemima Gorham Peck. A year later Nicholas married his wife's sister, Sarah Gorham, on October 5, 1799.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Bristol
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: Bequest of the Misses Long
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.L06956.A
label: catalog number
content: L06956A
label: accession number
content: 113420
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: 13 in x 10 7/8 in; 33.02 cm x 27.6225 cm