Sampler (Spot motif sampler)

Description

This is a linen sampler worked with silk threads in 1801 by Amy Pim who attended the Plymouth School in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The motifs can be found on English Quaker samplers and were popular in America, especially throughout the Delaware Valley and as far south as Virginia. This particular sampler with its bands of motifs, verse, and signature, is typical of American Quaker works. Amy's sampler includes an excerpt from English poet Edward Young's "Poem on the Last Day - Book II" written in 1713. Young was immensely popular and was much read in America in the early 19th century. The inscription on Amy's sampler follows: "Amy Pim / Plymouth / School /1801" and "Grant I may ever at the morning ray, / Open with pray'r the consecrated day, / Tune thy great praise, and bid my soul arise, / And with the mounting sun ascend the skies. / As that advances, let my zeal improve, / And glow with ardor of consummate love; / Nor cease at eve, but with the setting sun / My endless worship shall be still begun."