Sukey Foster's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1803
name: label: maker
content: Foster, Sukey
notes: label: Description
content: One script alphabet with letters colored in pairs; no "J"; three rows separated by simple crossbands. Below verse, three flowering plants (one in vase) and two-story building with four chimneys standing next to tree on hill. Center section outlined by three sawtoothed bands and short strawberry-vine band. Border of wide geometric flowering vine on top and two sides, and band of shaded satin stitches across bottom. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, crosslet, chain, detached chain, petit point, outline, satin, hem. THREAD COUNT: warp 32, weft 28/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "The fairest flower will soon decay<br>Its fragrant loose and splended hue<br>So youth and beauty wear away<br>And vanish is the morning dew<br>
label: Description
content: Sukey Fosters Work<br>Wrought in the tWelfth<br>Year of her age<br>Cambridge<br>August 20 1803"<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Sukey was born on March 10, 1791, to James and Sukey Foster in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. She married William Adams on September 17, 1818, and they had four children—Susan Ann, William, Hannah Foster, and Mary Jane. Sukey died in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 13, 1846. Her sampler descended in the family of her son William.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
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 Dr. Arthur S. Adams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0849.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0849
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0849.01
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: 23 1/2 in x 16 3/8 in; 59.69 cm x 41.5925 cm