Description:
Needlework sampler done in silk embroidery on a plain linen ground, which has the inscription, "AD 1831 / Sophia Stebbins aged 9 / Springfield Massachusetts." A handwritten label pasted on the backing of the original frame reads: "Done by Sophia Stebbins - died age 9 - sister of James Stebbins Teaset is hers." There is also another small piece of paper on which is written, "Gt Aunt Sophia's dolls Tea set - about 1831." Sophia Stebbins (1822-1841) was the daughter of Festus Stebbins (1768-1850) and Frances Dickinson Stebbins (1780-1864) who married in Springfield in 1799. The 11th of 12 children, Sophia died unmarried, and this sampler, teaset (HD 74.003), and two cup plates (HD 74.004 and HD 74.004A) descended in the family of one of her older brothers, James Stebbins (1811-1892) who married Eunice Sylvia Alvord (1829-1900) in Springfield in 1857. James and Eunice's daughter, Mary Granger Stebbins (b.1863) married Charles Brewster Atwater (b.1857) in 1892, and their daughter, Margaret Sylvania Atwater (b.1894), the donor, married Joel Harris Newell. The sampler has 6 rows of the alphabet in capital, lower case and script letters; a row of the numbers 1-16; and "God with never sleeping / view Sees and remember / all I do."
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Linen; Silk Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+74.002 |
