19th Century African-American Embroidery Needlework Collected by Winterthur

The Magazine Antiques reports that Winterthur Museum in Delaware has purchased a rare Berlin work picture stitched by an African-American schoolgirl from Philadelphia needlework dealer, Amy Finkel. The piece has been identified as stitched by Olevia Rebecca Parker, a student of the Lombard Street School in Philadelphia, c. 1828. According to the article only a handful of samplers by African-American girl are known to be in existence.