Fine and Rare Needlework SamplerWrought by Ann HeylPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaDated 1789 Worked in silk threads on a linen ground, depicting insects and a basket of fruit floating over a woman by a well with parrot and a castle-like building on a stepped terrace lawn with a shepherd with goats, recumbent stag, and geese, above the stitched words Ann Heyl Her Work Made In The Year 1789, all within an undulating floral border.Sight 22 by 18 1/2 in.ProvenanceHarry B. Hartman Antiques, Marietta, Pennsylvania.Catalogue noteThis needlework depicts the three-dormer castle-like building discussed in Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers and Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, vol. II, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1993), fig. 390, p. 366. A closely related example was sold at Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 25, 2013, sale 8950, lot 283.
Fine and Rare Needlework SamplerWrought by Ann HeylPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaDated 1789 Worked in silk threads on a linen ground, depicting insects and a basket of fruit floating over a woman by a well with parrot and a castle-like building on a stepped terrace lawn with a shepherd with goats, recumbent stag, and geese, above the stitched words Ann Heyl Her Work Made In The Year 1789, all within an undulating floral border.Sight 22 by 18 1/2 in.ProvenanceHarry B. Hartman Antiques, Marietta, Pennsylvania.Catalogue noteThis needlework depicts the three-dormer castle-like building discussed in Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers and Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, vol. II, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1993), fig. 390, p. 366. A closely related example was sold at Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 25, 2013, sale 8950, lot 283.
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