SOLD Anne Titchaner's 1865 Sampler, Then the Lord Will Take Me Up american history drawings Much of the label on

Much of the label on the top is long gone

I didn't know it when I purchased it (the artist's name is incorrectly cited on reverse) but with a little research I discovered it was done by Spanish painter

all the better for its imperfections

7/16" deep

SOLD Anne Titchaner's 1865 Sampler, Then the Lord Will Take Me Up american history drawings Much of the label onIt's the less structured, more personal samplers that really get me, like this one, completed by an Anne Titchaner, age 13, in June of 1865. And here it is especially the phrase that runs across the center that made me fall for it: "When my mother and father foresake me, then the Lord will take me up," with the dark blue of the second half of the sentence making it pop as if to announce that the Lord has indeed taken our Anne to heaven! And then these