Object Details
- Quick, Caroline
- Description
- This sampler features two block alphabets with a lower case backward “j,” She included the following inscription:
- “Bestow dear Lord upon our youth
The gift of saving grace
And let the seed of sacred truth
Fall in a fruitful place
Caroline Quick 1841” - Caroline Quick’s inscription is from a hymn, Prayer for a Blessing by English poet William Cowper (1731-1800). Stitching such a verse on her sampler was a way for Caroline to receive religious instruction. The sampler is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 22, weft 25/ in. The stitches used are cross, four-sided, double cross, queen, Algerian eye, and crosslet.
- Caroline Quick (c.1831) was the daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Quick and was born in Ulster County, Marlborough, New York. In the 1880 New York census she was living with George and Timna Quick Woolsey. Timna was a sister to Caroline, and George and Timna were the parents of donor Harriet Woolsey Gardner, Mrs. Daniel Gardner.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Daniel Gardner
- 1841
- ID Number
- TE.H37549
- catalog number
- H37549
- accession number
- 115031
- Object Name
- embroidery, sampler
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linen (ground material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- cotton (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in; 44.1325 cm x 20.0025 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, Marlboro
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_639632
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-ada9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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