AN AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

AN AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER

BY HANNAH TALLCOT OF NINE PARTNER'S SCHOOL NEW YORK

worked with polychrome silk floss on a coarse linen ground, with cross stitch, with alphabets and numerals, signed and dated 'Hannah Tallcott Sampler 18 of 7 Month 1810', in a later glazed ebonised frame

27.6 x 38cm

Provenance

M. Finkel & Daughter, 936, Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

In December 1796 a Quaker Boarding School called Nine Partners School was opened under the auspices of the New York Yearly Meeting. For its first five years the administrators were Joseph Tallcot and his wife Sarah Hawxhurst Tallcot, This school was the first successful American co-educational boarding school and served as a template for many Quaer Schools in the early United States.