Hunterdon County - Flemington - HUNTERDON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO UNVEIL NEWLY RESTORED NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Tuesday, May 14 – Hunterdon CountyHUNTERDON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO UNVEIL NEWLY RESTORED NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
An 1835 sampler stitched by Hannah Gray (1822-1918) will be unveiled at 1:30 pm, Tuesday, May 14 at the Hunterdon County Historical Society’s Doric House, 114 Main Street, Flemington, NJ. Needlework historian Marty Campanelli will briefly discuss the sampler, the instructress, and the motifs important to this work’s stylistic group of embroideries.
The sampler was donated to the society by a Gray family descendant in 1971. It has been restored and framed through a generous donation from Daniel C. Scheid of Princeton, NJ in memory of artist and needlework historian Dan Campanelli (1949-2017). Mr. Scheid was a co-curator, along with Dan and Marty Campanelli, of the landmark needlework exhibition, Hail Specimen of Female Art! at Morven Museum and Gardens in Princeton, New Jersey in 2014-15.
The public is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. For more information, visit the Society’s website @ hunterdonhistory.org or call 908-782-1091.
