Sampler
Apphia Amanda Young, American, 1822 - 1910
1838
Linen embroidered with silk thread
Overall: 17 3/8 × 17 3/8 in. (44.1 × 44.1 cm)
Frame: 19 3/4 × 19 3/4 in. (50.2 × 50.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund, the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund, and the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund
2006.77
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Textile: Sampler
Classification
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Course History
HIST 9.01, America: From Invasion to Independence, Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2019
HIST 27, WGST 23, Gender and Power in American History from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, Leslie Butler, Spring 2012
Exhibition History
American Folk Art at the Hood Museum of Art (a thematic partial permanent gallery installation); Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, July 16, 2015.
American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 31, 2019-January 20, 2020.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, The Collections: New Acquisitions, Hood Museum of Art Quarterly, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, Spring 2007, p.14, ill.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Building on Dartmouth's Historic American Collections: Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions since 1985, The Magazine Antiques, November 2007, New York: Brant Publications, color ill. p. 150.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 214-215, no. 188.
Provenance
Stephen and Carol Huber, Old Saybrook, Connecticut; sold to present collection, 2006.
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