Lot Details
Lot 388
Silk-on-Linen Needlework Sampler
Worked by Elizabeth Crowninshield, Salem, MA, Essex County, circa 1805-06
The pious verse reads:
Next unto God dear Parents I address
Myself to you in humble thankfulness
For all your care and charge on me bestow'd
The means of learning unto me allow'd.
Provenance:
Descended in the Crowninshield-Freeto-Appleton Family
Christie's, New York, 2 June 1990, lot 118.
M. Finkel & Daughter, 2002
Elizabeth Crowninshield was born September 19, 1794 to an important Salem family. She was the daugther of Benjamin and Mary Lambert Crowninshield. She lived her life in the Crowninshield-Bentley House, a house museum now part of the Peabody-Essex Museum. She married Francis Freeto September 7, 1817. The sampler first came to auction from the descendents of their children in 1990. Further genealogical information accompanies this lot.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century, Essex County, Massachusetts became a highly prosperous and populated area. Numerous private schools for girls fostered a wealth of needlework styles. This sampler exhibits typical Essex County traits such as figures, flowers and trees in the lower register. See Ring, Girlhood Embroidery, Volume I.
C Property from the Estate of a Private Collector
Additional Notes & Condition Report
frame rubbed, scratched, losses
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