Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1826
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Susannah Cathells, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two verses with baskets of flowers, an inscription, and in the lower third, a landscape showing boats on a river, a house and a church on either bank, trees, and figures. The whole is surrounded by a strawberry vine border.
label: Description
content: The verses read:
label: Description
content: How blest the maid whose circleing (sic) years improve
label: Description
content: Her God the object of her warmest love
label: Description
content: Whose tender years successive as they glide
label: Description
content: The book the needle and the pen divide
label: Description
content: Who sees her parents hearts exult with joy
label: Description
content: And the fond tear stand sparkling in her eye
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content: Jesus permit thy gracious name to stand
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content: As the efforts of an youthful hand
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content: And while her finger on the canvas move
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content: Engage her tender thoughts to seek thy love
label: Description
content: With thy dear children let her have a heart
label: Description
content: And write thy name thyself upon her heart
place: label: made in
content: New York, 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 Mrs. Henry E. Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-69-174
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin and stem stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 49 x 50 cm (19 5/16 x 19 11/16 in.)