Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1838
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Elizabeth Scull, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At the top is a large church titled St. Paul's Chapel, New York. (The building does not resemble the real St. Paul's chapel.) The doors, windows, and plants in front of the church are embellished with beads. Below it a fence, and then a text:
label: Description
content: Jesus permit thy gracios [sic] name to stand
label: Description
content: As the first effort of an infants hand
label: Description
content: And while her o'er the canvass move
label: Description
content: Engage her tender heart to seek thy love
label: Description
content: With thy fingers dear children may she have a part
label: Description
content: And write thy name thy self upon her heart
label: Description
content: Followed by the inscription, with a strawberry vine border on four sides.
place: label: made in
content: New Jersey, 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: 1981-28-108
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery with beads on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, stem, buttonhole, and satin stitches on plain weave foundation; beads sewn on with half cross stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 41.9 x 33 cm (16 1/2 x 13 in.)