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Start Over Date range 1849 Subjects Needlework
Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Jane McNabb Reid portrait and needlework sampler

4.0 Linear Feet one framed portrait, one framed sampler

This collection consists of a portrait and needlework sampler that belonged to Jane McNabb Reid. The needlework sampler was created by Reid when she was 18 years old in 1840 and includes several alphabets and the following four lines: Teach me to feel another's woe/To hid the fault I see/That mercy I to others show/That mercy show to me. The text is based on a poem by English poet Alexander Pope. The portrait is of an older Jane, likely created in the years preceeding her death in 1889.

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Jane McNabb Reid portrait and needlework sampler 4.0 Linear Feet one framed portrait, one framed sampler

Prewitt, Susan

This collection consists of a portrait and needlework sampler that belonged to Jane McNabb Reid. The needlework sampler was created by Reid when she was 18 years old in 1840 and includes several alphabets and the following four lines: Teach me to feel another's woe/To hid the fault I see/That mercy I to others show/That mercy show to me. The text is based on a poem by English poet Alexander Pope. The portrait is of an older Jane, likely created in the years preceeding her death in 1889.

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