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Burlington County, NJ Sampler
1827, silk on linen.
Ex-collections: Theodore H. Kapnek, Alexander W. Drake, Henry Francis du Pont.
Reads: I love the man who scorns to bend/ Beneath afflictions blast/ Who trust in an Almighty friend/ For his reward at last. Martha C. Hooton's...
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Burlington County, NJ Sampler
1823, silk on linen.
Ex-collection: Theodore H. Kapnek
Reads: Friendship/ Friendshipf a name to few confined./ The offspring of a noble mind./
A generous warmth which fills the breast./ And better felt than ere exprest.
Sarah Ann Hartman's w...
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Rhode Island Sampler
Made in 1793, the sampler reads "Joanna Maxwell/born May the 8/AD 1782 at Warren/Wrought at/ Warren/ September/ the 12 A D 1723." Joanna worked an acrostic verse (the first letters of each line spelling out her name vertically), and lived in her gran...
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