The Magazine Antiques

Oil on canvas  
27 x 40 inches
Signed top left: A. Lassell Ripley
Inscribed and signed in pencil on reverse: Grouse and Spruce Tree, A. Lassell Ripley

AJ KOLLAR FINE PAINTINGS
1421 East Aloha Street
Seattle, WA  98112
(206) 323-2156
www.ajkollar.com

Philip Carrol
High Street, Gargrave
Horth Yorkshire, UK BD23 3RB
Tel: + 44 (0) 1756 748 272
Mobile: + 44 (0) 7860 525 579
philipcarrol@yahoo.com

Oil on Canvas
34 x 40 inches
Signed and dated Nuse '22
Provenance:  Private Collection, USA

MacConnal-Mason Gallery
14 & 17 Duke Street
St. James's, London SW1Y  6DB
Tel: +44 (0) 207 839 7693
Fax: +44 (0) 207 839 6797
fineart@macconnal-mason.com
www.macconnal-mason.com

Sampler size: 16" x 16¾"

Samplers featuring American eagles are considered highly desirable in the field of folk art. These rare samplers were only worked in Pennsylvania and we are pleased to offer Eleanor Fisher's outstanding needlework with a handsome eagle surmounting her fine composition. This sampler was in the collection of Theodore H. Kapnek, widely considered one of the premier collectors of American samplers; this provenance is one of the most important that any sampler can offer.

Eleanor was born in 1829 and named her parents, Jacob and Margaret on her sampler; she included the initials of her older siblings and younger step-siblings. According to Genealogy of Joseph Fisher and his Descendants, the family lived in Rush Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.

The Kapnek collection was exhibited at the Museum of American Folk Art in 1978, and the excellent book, A Gallery of American Samplers: The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection by Glee F. Krueger was published at that time, with this sampler as figure 118.

Worked in silk and linen on linen, the sampler is in very good condition and has been conservation mounted into a mahogany and maple cornerblock frame.

M. Finkel & Daughter
936 Pine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Tel: 215-627-7797
mailbox@finkeantiques.com
www.samplings.com