Margaret Anderson's 1839 Pictorial Needlework Sampler

Silk on linen, featuring a central image of a woman holding a sickle, titled "The Reaper", below the stitched signature "Margaret . Anderson . MDCCCXXXIX .", with detached motifs of cat, flower basket, and dog, within a grapevine border, presented in antique frame.

Frame 17 x 14 3/4 in.; sight 12 x 14 1/2 in.

From the Collection of Josephine Chapman Borthwick, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Fading; discoloration; probable unfinished area to center of piece has been colored with paint or pastel; a few small holes; dried insect present in frame; some loss to frame; not examined out of frame.