A Very Rare and Important Needlework Sampler, Lydia Stockton (1793-1863), Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, Dated 1804

silk and chenille threads and watercolor on paper on linen

16 ¾ in. by 17 in.

worked in cross, satin, stem, chain, and solid stem-stitches, the upper register signed and dated Lydia Stockton 1804 above a white house flanked by arborvitae trees and white gated fences before a lawn with grazing chickens, geese, and a dog surrounded by planted flowers, flanked by cedar trees and a fence to the left and a willow tree and basket of strawberries to the right; the foreground depicting a young girl donned in a white dress riding a cream-colored horse flanked by hilly landscapes with a basket of flowers, cow, pheasant, and dog perched on the hill to the left and a homestead, willow trees, and sheep on the right, the whole enveloped by a flat-stitch border and housed in a period black-painted frame.

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