Description:
Needlework sampler done in silk embroidery on unbleached linen by Sally Hall(1797-1844) of Greenfield, with the verse "Virtue is the chiefest beauty of the mind / The noblest ornament of human kind / Virtue is our safeguard and guiding star / That stirs up reason where our senses err" over "Wrought by Sally Hall of Greenfield September 23, 1806 / Age 9 years." Sally Willis Hall was the daughter of Timothy Hall (1753-1829) and Cornelia Joyce Hall (1757-1820) who moved to Greenfield from Middletown, Connecticut, around 1790; Timothy was a hatter with a shop on Main Street in Greenfield. The sampler has a joined group of two flower sprays and a vase with flowers over the verse; and under the verse, a two-story white house with a center chimney and white picket fence, running black and white dog, two trees with perching birds, smaller house in the left corner, other dog and birds figures, and a scrolling grape vine border along both sides. While it is not known where exactly Hall attended school to make this sampler, her parents moved to Greenfield from Middletown, and her work shares stylistic similarities to a sampler wrought in Middletown, Connecticut by Esther Brown, dated march 20, 1782.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Glass; Linen; Silk Link to share this object record:
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