Amish sampler with lettering and motifs
This classic example of a Pennsylvania German sampler was made by an Amish girl. Samplers that show many motifs—this one displays seventy-three—were used primarily to record and practice designs and alphabets that were later referred to when initialing and decorating household textiles.
Artwork Details
- Title: Amish sampler with lettering and motifs
- Maker: Barbara Beiler
- Date: early 19th century
- Geography: Made in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Silk and linen embroidery on linen
- Dimensions: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1933
- Object Number: 34.100.216
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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Embroidered by Julia Ann Fitch (American, 1792–1818)
1807
Angenett Jackson (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1823–1903 Boston, Massachusetts)
1838
Lydia Pearson (born 1791)
1802
Mary Parker (1792–1835)
1805
Probably Elizabeth Josephine Poyen (American, 1806–1868)
ca. 1819
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