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Ann Nelson
American, dates unknown
American, probably Mercer or Boyle County, Kentucky
Sampler, 1815 – 1830
Linen, wool
20 5/8 × 19 7/8 in. (52.4 × 50.5 cm.) (frame)
From the Noe Collection, Gift of Bob and Norma Noe, Lancaster, Kentucky 2011.9.18
Familiar Samplers
This sampler’s flowers, insects, animals, and architectural elements drew on an ornamental vocabulary familiar to many early nineteenth-century American needle workers. The grand house, found on other samplers from Kentucky and elsewhere, incorporates the precise symmetry typical of the period’s classically inspired architecture. The sampler descended in the family of its maker, Ann Nelson.
