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拍品專文
The present lot, depicting a young lady towering over a brick house framed by a decorative floral vine, is one of a small group of charming samplers worked in southeastern Pennsylvania. First identified by Betty Ring, the six other known pieces are further characterized by painted faces as well as pink ribbon ruching with rosettes; the absence of these elements suggests that this example, worked by Rebecca Smith in 1831, was never completed by the young artist.
This group of needleworks, all completed between 1821 and 1831, are thought to have been made under the direction of an as-yet-unidentified instructor who taught in Lebanon or the surrounding area, with two of the samplers in the group inscribed that their work had been completed ‘At Mrs. Hoff School’ (one example, by Mary Stoy, was sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 21-22 October 1982, lot 578; for more on this group, see Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, vol. II (New York, 1993), pp. 430-433).
This group of needleworks, all completed between 1821 and 1831, are thought to have been made under the direction of an as-yet-unidentified instructor who taught in Lebanon or the surrounding area, with two of the samplers in the group inscribed that their work had been completed ‘At Mrs. Hoff School’ (one example, by Mary Stoy, was sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 21-22 October 1982, lot 578; for more on this group, see Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, vol. II (New York, 1993), pp. 430-433).