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Stephen & Carol Huber: 17th - 19th Century Needlework


sampler from Wheeling, WV area - Huber

ANN BELL
Wheeling West Virginia area dated 1828
Sampler may be from Ohio, Pennsylvania, or West Virginia

Ann Bell worked this beautiful patriotic sampler honoring George Washington in 1826. It is inscribed:

peace love and charity

My handy work my friends may have
When I am dead and in my grave
Which if you should chance to see
May kind rememberance picture me

By Geo. Washington/ great deeds were done

I will twine the rose aro/und thy mouldering tomb

Ann Bells/ Sampler/ Work'd/ in 1828

The graphic appeal is enhanced with a central house under a spread eagle with a shield, flanked by a fence, a monument entwined with roses as well as several paired birds and numerous flowers. It retains its original frame.

Silk on linen; 17 1/2 inches square sight.

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STEPHEN & CAROL HUBER
(860) 388-6809
Hubers@AntiqueSamplers.com

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