Embroidered Sampler
Lydia Headly or her younger sister Rachel completed this record of three generations of their Quaker family about 1805. In addition to memorializing the family, she appropriately included the figures of Adam and Eve, and added a portrait of a little house at the bottom.
Artwork Details
- Title: Embroidered Sampler
- Maker: Lydia Headly (born 1793)
- Maker: Rachel Headly (born 1795)
- Date: ca. 1805
- Geography: Made in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Embroidered silk on linen
- Dimensions: 20 x 18 3/4 in. (50.8 x 47.6 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Barbara Schiff Sinauer, 1984
- Object Number: 1984.331.18
- 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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