Needlework Sampler

Description:

Needlework Sampler, "Wrought by Eliza Hemenway aged 11 years Pepperell February 1835," Massachusetts, worked in silk threads on a linen ground, with rows of alphabets surrounded by a flowering vine, (toning, fading),16 x 21 1/4 in., in a later wood frame.

Provenance: Family descent of Eliza Hemenway.

Note: Eliza Hemenway was born May 24, 1824, in Pepperell, Massachusetts. She was the first child of six born to Artemas and Indiana (Fitch) Hemenway. Indiana stitched the sampler lot 483.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

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