Worked by Catherine Stape (b. 1821, Washington, Lycoming County, PA) at a private girls’ school in Maytown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This sampler features a “mile high” figure of a woman in a peach color dress and white bonnet with her dog, reminiscent of Lebanon’s Towering Ladies. It includes large birds worked in crinkled floss above hearts enclosing her parents’ names, set in a pictorial scene with a vibrant floral border. The Stape family, members of Maytown Lutheran Church, relocated to Maytown in 1830.
Exhibited: Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Samplers and Samplermakers (11/7/91 – 2/2/92)
Item Date: 1832
Measurement: Sight: 17" x 16.5"; Frame: 22" x 21.5"
Material: Worked in silk, twisted silk threads and crinkled silk floss on linen. The work is archival mounted in an appropriate custom made frame painted dark green
Item Condition: Very good; flowerpot has lost some black thread; the central tree has lost green leaves, otherwise the work displays well and features vibrant colors throughout.
Literature: Edmonds, Mary Jaene, Samplers and Samplermakers, 1991, p. 110
Price: $6,750
SKU 1599-2
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