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A Needlework Sampler, worked by Anna Huntington, Franklin, Connecticut, dated 1803

No reserve

Auction Closed

April 21, 08:50 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Needlework Sampler

dated 1803


solidly worked over the ground in red, green, gold, cream, tan and black silk in a variety of stitches; signed Anna Huntington, Her Sampler, July 30, 1803, in the Twelfth Year of Her Age


16⅛ x 15¾ in. (41.1 x 4 cm.)

Sotheby's, New York, The Joan Stephens Collection: Important Samplers and Pictorial Needlework, January 19, 1997, sale 6942, lot 2048
Wolf Family Collection No. 1118 (acquired from the above)
Glee E. Krueger, New England Samplers to 1840, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 1978, p. 31, fig. 64