Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021
Lot 339
AN AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK QUAKER SCHOOL SAMPLER
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £1100
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Description
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.