SOLD Anne Titchaner's 1865 Sampler, Then the Lord Will Take Me Up smoke painted 3 3/4" x 2 5/8"

3 3/4" x 2 5/8" x 1 1/16"

but I really love its weirdness

These charming

I LOVE this naive reverse glass painting of flowers

about to enter the picture frame

SOLD Anne Titchaner's 1865 Sampler, Then the Lord Will Take Me Up smoke painted 3 3/4" x 2 5/8"It'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