EARLY AUSTRALIAN SAMPLER, HOBART TOWN

Mary Ann Nowlan aged 9
Convent School
Hobart Town
1843
sold thanks Australia

UNUSUAL ORPHANGE SAMPLER, HARRIET BARNABY 1860

Unusual sampler by Harriet Barnaby,Royal Freemasons School For Females, 1860.
19 by 16 inches
The Royal Freemasons School was an orphanage for
the daughters of Freemasons in Wandsworth London.
The school admitted up to 65 girls between the ages of
8 and 11 .
The children, daughters of masons of at least three years' standing, entered the school between the ages of 8 and 10. They were taught needlework and domestic subjects and every effort was made "to impress strongly on their minds a due sense of subordination, in true humility and obedience to their superiors." No child who had not had the smallpox or who had any defect or infirmity was admitted. The girls were apprenticed out at the age of 15
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ADVANCE AUSTRALIA SILKWORK

Very cute, note the elephant instead of a sheep and the very rat like kangaroo
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SAILORS WOOLWORK OR "WOOLIE"

19th century, the card de visite of the sailor is stamped "Ouless Jersey" 21 inches by 17 inches
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PALESTINE SAMPLER 1850

Unusual map sampler from 1850 showing Palestine in the time of our Saviour 16 inches by 18 inches
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SARAH MCGREGOR SAMPLER 1845

17 inches by 17 inches, by Sarah McGregor, of Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Daughter of Gregor McGregor and Margaret Colquhoun.
This is quite the best sampler I have ever had. Bright colors, silk and wool, with a school, church, houses, a hunter on horseback, a woman and a soldier, a peacock, animals and birds, bordered with flowers.
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