Sold for:
$14,040
$14,040
Boston silk on linen needlework sampler , inscribed "Deborah Robins her sampler made 1750", with verse flanked by a floral vine, over a scene of a shepherdess tending her flock, 13 1/2" x 10". Listed in American Samplers by Bolton & Coe, pg. 72. Page 41 contains a listing of another sampler by her daughter, Deborah Day, lot 678 in this sale. Provenance: Stephen Score; Nina Fletcher Little Sale, Sothebys, October 1994, Lot 938.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2006-09-23
