Collection Highlights
The Lost Cause
Date:
1871
Object Number:
PR.068.19
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Sampler
Object Number:
2003.85.1
Date:
1799
Medium:
Linen, silk
Dimensions:
Framed: 20 x 20 1/2 in. (50.8 x 52.1 cm)
Marks:
stitched: "Harriot Ward is my name New York is my Station Heaven I hope my Dwelling Place and Christ is my Salvation when I am dead and in my Grave and all my bones are rotten when this you see remember me that i am not forgotten"
stitched: "Harriot Ward
Description:
Rectangular linen sampler worked in various colors of silk floss; eight lines of prose worked in cross stitch; one line with name worked in Queen's stitch; basket of flowers and tree motifs below; deep arcaded border with birds and floral motifs.
Gallery Label:
Harriot Ward (1794-1875) was the eldest of Jonathan and Sarah Brown Ward's thirteen children. Born in the rural village of Eastchester, today a neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx, Harriot and her sister Clarissa (2003.85.2) probably worked their samplers at a girls' school in nearby New Rochelle or Manhattan. Harriot never married, but put her sewing skills to use working as a dressmaker in Manhattan in the 1860s.
Credit Line:
Gift of Pamela Daly Vose Estate
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
