AN AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

AN AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY SARAH KNOWER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

worked with black and grey floss silk on a coarse linen ground, in cross stitch with 'An Elegy' inscribed 'On the Death of Mrs Maria Knower consort of Samuel Knower who Died at Sing Sing westchester Co NY on the 7th of August AD 1829' and signed 'Worked by Sarah Knower aged 10 years', in a later glazed ebonised frame

44.6 x 40cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.176 for a discussion of this sampler.

Catalogue Note

In the 17th century, the Knower family were one of the first recorded settler families in the Massachusetts area and research concludes that the family originally came from Eastcheap, London.