Name/Title
SamplerEntry/Object ID
GHS 1319Description
Sampler made by Susan Wister containing four alphapbets, outer border is a strawberry and leaves design, sampler has eight rows of alphabets.
Row 1 A-Z #6 Susan Earl pattern, capital letters
Row 2 a-z and numbers 1-8 #7 Susan Earl pattern, lower case letters
Row 3 A-O #6 Susan Earl pattern, eyelet stitch capital letters
Row 4 P-Z #6 Susan Earl pattern, eyelet stitch, a nine appears at the end of this row
Row 5 A-Q #5 Susan Earl pattern, capital letters
Row 6 R-Z #5 Susan Earl pattern, also A-F #4 Susan Earl pattern
Row 7 G-W #4 Susan Earl pattern, capital letters
Row 8 X-Z #4 Susan Earl pattern, capital letters and a-z #7 Susan Earl lower case, over one thread.
In between each row there is a border of one to three bands, in the center bottom is the name, surrounded by branches and flowers, on either siade of the name are baskets of flowers with pairs of birds above them, birds are resting on stylized urns, use of different shade, colors are in shades of blue, green, yellow, yellow orange, beige, brown, pink, rose, and black, bottom of sampler has solid rows of green from light to dark shades.
Susan Wister 1828, located on the center bottom surrounded by flowers and leaves.Dimensions
Width
16-3/4 inLength
16 inProvenance
Notes
Susan Wister was born in 1820 and died in 1884, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Harvey) Wister, she lived in Vernon here in Germantown.