Object Number 2017.0032 A

Object Name

Sampler (Family record)

Category

Textiles (Needlework)

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase with funds drawn from the Centenary Fund

Creator (Role)

Sarah Ann Major Harris
1812-1878
See files and notes field for additional biographical details. Additional research necessary.

Place of Origin

Norwich Area, New London, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Prudence Crandall's school was in Canterbury but this sampler might have been worked before Sarah arrived at the school. --see notes.

Date

1826-1828

Materials

Linen; Silk

Techniques

Cross stitched

Dimensions (inches)

20.375 (L) , 19.3125 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

51.752 (L) , 49.054 (W)

Measurement Notes

Measurements taken with work in the frame

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Gevalt, Emelie, et al. 2023 Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North.
• Published: p. 201, fig. 64
[Other] Krueger, Glee. "A Canterbury Tale: Sarah Ann Major Harris and Prudence Crandall.”.
• published in 1999 Dublin Seminar proceedings
[Article] Gruner, Maria. 2022 Enslavement and Its Legacies: "May the points of our needle prick" Antislavery Needlework and the Cultivation of the Abolitionist Self. Winterthur Portfolio. 55, No. 2/3 (Summer/Autumn 2021): 85-120.
• Published: p. 118, fig. 17