Children's handkerchief with the verse, "She went to the sempstress to buy him some linen, But when she came back the Dog was a-spinning" [object]

Accession number: 
PML 88582
Published: 
[United States, ca. 1840]
Description: 
1 handkerchief : cotton, hemmed ; 22 x 24 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes: 

Cream-colored cotton printed in red.
From the nursery rhyme, "Old Mother Hubbard".

Variant Title: 

She went to the sempstress to buy him some linen, But when she came back the Dog was a-spinning

Provenance: 
From the collections of Julia P. Wightman.
Summary: 

Image in the center in a double circle shows an older woman and a dog spinning. Text below, "She went to the sempstress to buy him some linen, But when she came back the Dog was a-spinning." Square decorative border. One from a "Mother Hubbard series" of handkerchiefs (cf. Murphy)

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