Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
An Embroidered and Painted Silkwork Picture of Silkwork of Evelyn McClintic and Her Dog, Innocence, Pennsylvania, 1826
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January 25, 09:01 PM GMT
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Description
silk threads and watercolor on paper on silk ground
dated 1826
height 13 in. by width 17 in.
signed E McClintick lower left and Inocence lower right; housed in its original mahogany veneered frame with the white pine backboard inscribed This sampler was made in 1826. A label attached to the backboard is inscribed "Evelyn McClintock (1812-1896), wife of George Blymyer (1812-1894). They were the father and mother of Jerry S. Blymyer and therefore the grandparents of Bessie Blymyer Risser and the great- grandparents of Phares N. Risser Jr, Born 2/2/11. All three generations are buried in the Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Pa."
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Stephen and Carol Huber, Lyme, Connecticut sold at the Delaware Antiques Show, Wilmington, 2003.
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 163, fig. 302.
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