Name/Title
Sarah Emily Currier, sampler, 1840Entry/Object ID
36Description
Sampler with complex border of sawtooth and berry motifs, alphabets, lower portion familiar Portsmouth landscape. Modern bird’s-eye maple frame, plexi-glass. Maker dtr. of Capt. Caleb & Sarah Marden Currier. M. John J. Marston in 1849. Daughter was Sarah Emily Currier, aged 16, June 20, 1840. Alphabet and “religion smooths life's troubled stream / She sheds a mild resplendent beam/ That lulls to stillness every care / And blunts the arrow of despair / Then Sarah learn her path to trend / By her bright taper then be led / To Heaven's high dome the blest abode / Of saints and angels and of God.”
Two accession labels on back "EBC116"Textile Type
SamplerAcquisition
Accession
36Source or Donor
Vaughan, Edith MabelAcquisition Method
BequestCredit Line
Given in Memory of Horace G. Vaughan and Lizzie M. Vaughan, by Edith Mabel Vaughan.Made/Created
Artist
Currier, Sarah EmilyDate made
1840Inscription/Signature/Marks
Notes
UDF21: 2 paper labels on back: “EBC116” & “EBC107” [access. card = kid gloves].Dimensions
Dimension Description
in frameWidth
23-1/2 inLength
23-3/4 in
