Sampler;Sampler
Mattatuck Historical Soc (owned by)
1799 (Date manufactured/created)
1799 (Date manufactured/created)
1799 (Date manufactured/created)
Silk thread, Silk thread
linen ground, linen ground
+Young girls who went to school in the 19th century were usually given instruction in decorative accomplishments, rather than academic subjects. Samplers demonstrated a young girl’s piety, her refinement and her ability to form the letters of the alphabet, which would be useful in marking the household bedding and kitchen fabrics she would make in anticipation of her marriage.
+horizontal alphabet and pictorial type linen sampler worked in silk using cross-stitch. colors if thread taupe, silvery-light blue, green, yellow-green, brick-brown, grey, and red. Ground fabirc of linen. Design contains alphabet in uppercase block letters followed by the numbers 1-10 in two rows at top. "Betsy Hat...ch" stitched directly below (the name is divided by head of peacock placed slighty to rght of center). Remainder of sampler contains variety of images arranged randomly. Date 1799 appears below fruit basket.
+Betsy Hatch daughter of John Hatch (b. washington, CT, dec 8 1760) and of Anna Wadhams of New Preston, CT (b. march 20 1763); john and anna married oct 6, 1785.
Betsy Hatch b. nov 2 1788 and married in new milford, CT to Ichabod Studley on march 11 1812. she died in sharon, CT on may 7 1873.
Horizontal alphabet and pictorial type linen sampler worked in silk using cross-stitch. Colors of thread include taupe, silvery-light blue, green, yellow-green, brick-brown, grey, and red. Ground fabric of linen. Design contains alphabet in uppercase block letters followed by the numbers 1-10 in two rows at top. "Betsy Hat...ch" stitched directly below (the name is divided by head of peacock placed slightly to right of center). Remainder of sampler contains variety of images arranged randomly. Date 1799 appears below fruit basket.
Betsy Hatch was the daughter of John Hatch (b. Washington, CT, Dec 8 1760) and of Anna Wadhams of New Preston, CT (b. March 20 1763); John and Anna married on Oct 6, 1785. Betsy Hatch was born on November 2, 1788 and married Ichabod Studley on March 11, 1812 in New Milford. She died in Sharon, CT on May 7, 1873.
+horizontal alphabet and pictorial type linen sampler worked in silk using cross-stitch. colors if thread taupe, silvery-light blue, green, yellow-green, brick-brown, grey, and red. Ground fabirc of linen. Design contains alphabet in uppercase block letters followed by the numbers 1-10 in two rows at top. "Betsy Hat...ch" stitched directly below (the name is divided by head of peacock placed slighty to rght of center). Remainder of sampler contains variety of images arranged randomly. Date 1799 appears below fruit basket.
+Betsy Hatch daughter of John Hatch (b. washington, CT, dec 8 1760) and of Anna Wadhams of New Preston, CT (b. march 20 1763); john and anna married oct 6, 1785.
Betsy Hatch b. nov 2 1788 and married in new milford, CT to Ichabod Studley on march 11 1812. she died in sharon, CT on may 7 1873.
Horizontal alphabet and pictorial type linen sampler worked in silk using cross-stitch. Colors of thread include taupe, silvery-light blue, green, yellow-green, brick-brown, grey, and red. Ground fabric of linen. Design contains alphabet in uppercase block letters followed by the numbers 1-10 in two rows at top. "Betsy Hat...ch" stitched directly below (the name is divided by head of peacock placed slightly to right of center). Remainder of sampler contains variety of images arranged randomly. Date 1799 appears below fruit basket.
Betsy Hatch was the daughter of John Hatch (b. Washington, CT, Dec 8 1760) and of Anna Wadhams of New Preston, CT (b. March 20 1763); John and Anna married on Oct 6, 1785. Betsy Hatch was born on November 2, 1788 and married Ichabod Studley on March 11, 1812 in New Milford. She died in Sharon, CT on May 7, 1873.
Collection of the Mattatuck Museum, Purchase, Restricted Funds, 1997
Collection of the Mattatuck Museum, Purchase, Restricted Funds, 1997
Collection of the Mattatuck Museum, Purchase, Restricted Funds, 1997
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