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拍品專文
Depicting a latticework basket overflowing with grapes, strawberries and other fauna above a garland tied with a delicate blue ribbon and framing a cartouche worked with a poem, this sampler is one of a group of fifteen related ‘presentation’ samplers made in Philadelphia or the northeastern neighborhood known as Kensington for a twenty-five year period ending in 1839. According to research conducted by Betty Ring, there were at least four schoolmistresses or teachers working in the Philadelphia area: Mrs. Deborah Grelaud, whose school operated between 1806 and 1849; Mrs. Adelaide LeBrun, who kept her Seminary from 1816 until 1839; Mrs. Eliza Martien (or Martin), who taught between 1808 and 1839; and Miss Anna Sanders, who was a teacher at 73 North Seventh Street from 1808 until 1851.
Other samplers with similar composition and verse include an example in the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Eliza M Kandle; one by Eliza Weckerly, which was formerly in the collection of Theodore Kapnek and sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 31 January 1981, lot 102; and another by Mary Ann Stevenson that was advertised by R. H. Love Galleries, Inc. (Clarion (Spring/ Summer 1986), np.; for more information see Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, vol. II, pp. 374-377).
Other samplers with similar composition and verse include an example in the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Eliza M Kandle; one by Eliza Weckerly, which was formerly in the collection of Theodore Kapnek and sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 31 January 1981, lot 102; and another by Mary Ann Stevenson that was advertised by R. H. Love Galleries, Inc. (Clarion (Spring/ Summer 1986), np.; for more information see Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, vol. II, pp. 374-377).