New Hampshire Week 2016
Embroidered Picture by Narcissa Sewall - Price Upon Request
This beautiful embroidered picture has a handwritten poem on the back, “The Friar of Orders Gray,” and is inscribed “Wrought at Mrs Rawson’s Academy, Newton, 1806, by Narcissa Sewall.” It depicts a wandering young lady seeking her missing young flaxen hair, blue-eyed lover. Unknown to her he has become a friar making vows of chastity and poverty but is still in a one-year trial period. She encounters a friar and enquires about her young lover, he responds “He is dead and in his grave.” Her grief, her love and dedication is so persuasive that the friar is swayed to break his vows and reveals he is her lover and saves them both from living lives of longing. Narcissa was from a prominent Maine family, born in York, Maine, in 1791, the daughter of Daniel Sewall and Dorcas Bartlett. She worked this embroidery at age 15 and at age 55 she married Benjamin Bourne as his third wife. This sampler is silk, mica and paint and measures 14½ by 18¼ inches sight. Stephen & Carol Huber Old Saybrook, CT 860-388-6809 Hubers@AntiqueSamplers.com www.antiquesamplers.com/
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