Needlework picture

Artist/Maker
Vogler, Louise Lauretta
Place Made
Salem North Carolina United States of America
Date Made
1836
Medium
silk on silk
Dimensions
LOA 20 7/8; WOA 17 3/4 (frame)
Accession Number
374
Description
DESCRIPTION: Embroidered floral wreath of silk and chenille with crepe, silk, and ribbon on silk with written verse. Framed in black painted wood frame with squares in the corners.
History
LABEL NOTES: This needlework picture was done when she was 14 years old. “A similar design [wreath] was followed by fourteen-year-old Louise Lauretta Vogler in 1836 when she embroidered a floral wreath surrounding a written verse for her father’s fiftieth birthday. [note: actually, this needlework picture was not made for Vogler’s fiftieth birthday; P-568 is the sampler made by Christina Vogler for John’s birthday]. The verse again is written in ink, and, as she has predicted in her poem, the colors have faded.” (Welshimer in Welshimer and Bivins p. 55).

The frame is most likely original.
RELATED NAME: Vogler, Louise Lauretta

Artist Biography
ARTIST BIO: Louise Lauretta Vogler was born in 1822, the daughter of John and Christina Vogler of Salem, North Carolina. Upon her marriage to Edwin Timoleon Senseman, she moved to Illinois. She died in 1863.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Florence S. Wilson