Ellen Augusta Mansfield,
New Haven, Connecticut,
1845

Sampler size:
16¼" x 16&frac24;"

Price: $2450

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The Mansfield family settled in New Haven, Connecticut in 1639, having arrived as part of the Great Migration, between the 1620's and 1640's, when approximately 40,000 people arrived from England, and many settled in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Two centuries later, Ellen Augusta Mansfield was born August 1, 1835, and at the age of nine worked this fine sampler with alphabets, verse and a large handsome border.

Ellen practiced her alphabets incorporating the eyelet stitch, cross stitch and four-sided stitch. The verse, worked in a tighter cross stitch, was extracted from An Invitation by American poet Willis Gaylord Clark (1810-1841). A satin stitched sawtooth frame separates the lettering from a wide vining border of large pink blossoms.

Ellen Augusta married John H. Northrop in 1858 and had a son, Edward Gould, in 1860. Censuses reveal that John and Ellen had divorced by 1870, and in 1880 Ellen resided with her son, a store clerk, in New Haven.

Worked in silk on linen, Ellen's sampler is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted and is in a molded and painted frame.

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