SKINNER American Furniture & Decorative Arts
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734<br />
734.<br />
New Hampshire Pictorial Needlework Sampler, “Hannah W. Perkins Age 11,” Jaffrey, New Hampshire, 1818, wrought with silk,<br />
chenille, and metallic threads on a linen ground with painted and pricked paper details, the sampler centered with a scene with a young<br />
lady with applied painted paper face holding a bouquet of flowers in a pasture with applied pricked paper grazing sheep, trees, a large<br />
basket of flowers, and a house on a distant hilltop, with rows of alphabets and a pious verse above, all enclosed in a meandering<br />
flowering and fruiting vine, (imperfections), 17 1/4 x 18 1/4 in., in a later molded oak frame.<br />
Provenance: By family descent of the maker, pedigree chart and a family record attached to verso.<br />
Literature: See “Pictorial Samplers of Southern New Hampshire” in Girlhood Embroidery: <strong>American</strong> Samplers, Pictorial Needlework<br />
1650-1850, by Betty Ring, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993, pp. 244-247. This sampler is related in style and by family to a group of<br />
four samplers illustrated in Ring’s book. They were worked by girls from the small towns of Fitzwilliam, Rindge, and Jaffrey, New<br />
Hampshire, just north of the Massachusetts border. Samplers in the north central Massachusetts towns of Lancaster and Leominster<br />
bear borders, central scenes, and painted or paper-faced figures. Ring writes, “A number of families from this region of Massachusetts<br />
moved into southern new Hampshire during the early federal period, and contact was no doubt continued with friends and relatives in<br />
their former towns...Between 1817-1821, girls of Fitzwilliam and Rindge placed paper-faced ladies in elegant pastures surrounded by<br />
luxuriant floral borders...Their samplers have an interesting variety of materials and their paper-faced people and consistently worked<br />
flowers unquestionably relate them to a later example naming Jaffrey.”<br />
Hannah Woodward Perkins was born November 26, 1806, the daughter of Edward (b. 1773) and Ruth Gordon Perkins (b. 1777)<br />
in Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, and the fourth child of ten born to the couple. A sampler shown on p. 246 (fig. 283)<br />
was worked by her cousin Nancy S. Perkins in 1821. Nancy was born in Jaffrey in 1807, and moved to nearby Fitzwilliam in 1810.<br />
Hannah’s younger sister Mary Jane’s (b. 1815) memorial sampler is pictured on p. 247 (fig. 284). It is dated August 6, 1829, showing<br />
a monument dedicated to her three departed siblings and pictures their parents and the seven surviving siblings mourning at the<br />
monument. Hannah married Abraham Corey on June 1, 1824; the couple also had ten children.<br />
$4,000-6,000<br />
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