Grace H. Dougal,
New Haven, Connecticut,
1830

Sampler size:
8¼" x 11½"

Price: $5800

Enlarged and Printer Version

This samplermaker, Grace Hewitt Dougal, was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Peck) Dougal of New Haven. She was the third of their six children, born August 14, 1817, and in 1830, at age 13, Grace completed this small but very engaging sampler. The composition possesses a lively naiveté and the needlework indicates great control and skill. The subject is a footed bowl with large and varied flowers fairly springing out of it; note the bird perched within the arrangement. An unusual and diminutive pair of fruit baskets, tilted on angle, embellish the lower corners. Grace worked with very tight stitches and created openwork to decorate the bottom of the bowl and the deep blue and white buds.

The published Vital Records of New Haven 1649-1850 indicate that Grace married Charles E. Gorham, also of New Haven, on October 2, 1836 at the Methodist Church in Fair Haven. They removed to Cleveland, Ohio by 1838 where their three children, Isabella, Frederick and Charles were born and then continued further west where to Fort Wayne, Indiana where they were living in 1870.

The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted into a fine mahogany half spindle period frame.

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