Sampler
Mary Ayer
1825
- Medium
- Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in cross, hem, satin, split, stem, and tent stitches; French knots
- Dimensions
- 48 × 44.2 cm (18 7/8 × 17 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (fiber)samplerneedlework (visual works)Textile
About
The maker of this sampler was probably Mary Ayer, who was born in Charleston, the second of 10 children born to Nathaniel Ayer (1787–1872) and Elizabeth Fosdick (1791–1872). She married George C. Stevens (1811–1882) on September 12, 1847, and had two daughters.