Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1827
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Elizabeth Starr Fowler, American, 1822 - 1904
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
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content: Several bands of alphabets and numerals separated by narrow geometric borders, a four-verse hymn entitled The Little Pilgrim, and the inscription:
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content: Mr Charles E. Fowler
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content: Mrs Minerva S. Fowler
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content: Died 13, 1832
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content: The memory of the just is blessed
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content: Elizabeth Starr Fowler aged 9 years and 8 months
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content: flanked by weeping willow trees and a tomb.
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content: The hymn reads:
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content: Little Pilgrim, young in years,
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content: Hast thou not a hundred fears
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content: Thus to enter life's new road
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content: Never but with danger trod?
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content: Paths arrayed in tempting bloom
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content: Will entice thy steps to come;
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content: But, though every fragrance sweet
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content: Charm thy senses, shun the cheat.
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content: Yes, kind friend, I know full well
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content: Sin and sorrow in them dwell;
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content: Never shall my steps be led
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content: Where the virtuous should not tread.
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content: I will choose me such a guide,
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content: That I cannot step aside:
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content: Lord, if thou wilt be my aid,
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content: All those gay deceits shall fade.
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content: An additional text appears at the bottom:
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content: When soon or late they reach that coast
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content: Oer life's rough ocean driv's
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content: May they rejoice no wand'rer lost
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content: A family in heaven
place: label: made in
content: Guilford, Connecticut, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-139
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in stem, cross, detached chain, eyelet, and rococo stitches on plain weave foundation Label: linen embroidered with silk in stem, cross, detached chain, eyelet, and rococo stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 41.9 x 43.8 cm (16 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.)