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Lot 24
Framed Needlework Picture with Silk Ribbon and Rosette Border Lydia Fowler Sinclair (1804-67), New Jersey, c. 1815
2 – 12 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
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Framed Needlework Picture with Silk Ribbon and Rosette Border
Lydia Fowler Sinclair (1804-67), New Jersey, c. 1815
Fine plain-woven linen canvas worked in silk and wool threads using queen, counted-thread, and cross-stitch, as well as an oblique encroaching satin stitch in lustrous white thread filling the house at center of scene and figures of sheep in foreground, surrounded by flat-stitched sawtooth frame inside a queen- and cross-stitched strawberry vine border, the edges further embellished with a band of woven silk ribbon mattress-stitched to the canvas with shirred pink silk rosettes applied to all four corners, signed "Lydia Fowler daughter of Samuel and Ann Fowler was born 6th mo-21st 1804." in central reserve flanked by the monograms "S.F" and "A.F" below Biblical verse at top, sight 18 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.
Fine plain-woven linen canvas worked in silk and wool threads using queen, counted-thread, and cross-stitch, as well as an oblique encroaching satin stitch in lustrous white thread filling the house at center of scene and figures of sheep in foreground, surrounded by flat-stitched sawtooth frame inside a queen- and cross-stitched strawberry vine border, the edges further embellished with a band of woven silk ribbon mattress-stitched to the canvas with shirred pink silk rosettes applied to all four corners, signed "Lydia Fowler daughter of Samuel and Ann Fowler was born 6th mo-21st 1804." in central reserve flanked by the monograms "S.F" and "A.F" below Biblical verse at top, sight 18 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.
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Provenance
The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection of American Samplers, Sotheby's, New York, New York (31 January 1981), Lot 170, as "Fine Needlework Sampler: Letia Fowler, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Dated 1804" in catalogue.
Note
Lydia Fowler was the daughter of Samuel Fowler (1776-1856) and Ann Hankins (1777-1828) of Burlington and Upper Freehold, New Jersey. Lydia married Josiah Sinclair (c. 1799-1839) in 1822.



