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Baltimore Eyeglass Gate Sampler
Baltimore Eyeglass Gate Sampler
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Baltimore, Maryland, early 19th century, four line verse over two and half story brick building with central pediment, willow-like trees flanking the building, fenced yard with "eyeglass" gate, signed bottom "Caroline F. Barry", stitched on each side of verse, "JJ Barry" and "E Barry", arcaded floral border, silk on linen, 17-1/2 x 16-1/2 in. (sight); probably later stained wood frame fading, repair to left side of verse, losses to silk in several of the building widows, small stain over the "r" in Barry. Notes: This sampler is one of a group of building samplers worked by young girls in Baltimore, Maryland between 1810 to about 1842 and referred to as the eyeglass gate samplers. For a discussion of these samplers and an illustration of a very similar sampler worked by Matilda Wedge in 1810, please see Gloria Seaman Allen's, A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738-1810, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, 2007, pp. 206-211.. Provenance: Private Collection
Condition
fading, repair to left side of verse, losses to silk in several of the building widows, small stain over the "r" in Barry
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Baltimore Eyeglass Gate Sampler

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