Sampler
Mary Ann Thompson (b.c.1822)
Category
Textiles
Date
1834
Materials
Board, Glass, Linen, Silk, Wood
Measurements
340 x 305 mm
Order this imageCollection
Tintagel, Cornwall
NT 824061
Caption
As part of their training and education, young women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were required to embroider samplers; this is just one of many examples at the Old Post Office.
Summary
A framed sampler by Mary Ann Thompson, aged 12, 1834, of a house with four windows and a door, with trees and birds in cross stitch and satin stitch in silk on cream linen background. In gilt frame.
Marks and inscriptions
Mary Ann Thompson/ Aged 12 1834
Makers and roles
Mary Ann Thompson (b.c.1822), artist