Two Needlework Items

Description:

Two Needlework Items, executed by Beulah Murdock, early 19th century, a needlework sampler with silk threads on a linen ground, two alphabet panels above a pious verse and an unfinished landscape featuring a sky with sun, moon and clouds arched over an outline of a building and lawn with flowers, signed "Beulah Murdock's work wrought A.D. 1812," enclosed on three sides with a geometric flowering vine and a basket of flowers (fading),24 x 21 1/2; together with a single pocketbook, worked in Irish stitch in silk threads in a zig-zag pattern in shades of green, yellow, pink, tan, and off-white, the name "Beulah Murdock" stitched on one end, the interior edged and lined with dark green silk, (wear, fading),3 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.

Note: Beulah Murdock was born July 2, 1788, in Newton, Massachusetts, married Ephraim Jackson August 19, 1821. They resided in Newton, where they had two children, Samuel and George. A photocopy of this portion of the Murdock genealogy, compiled by Joseph B. Murdock in 1925, is affixed to the back of the frame.
Estimate $700-900

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