Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1833
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Julia Ann Nivers, American, 1823 - ?
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Embroidered sampler with several bands of alphabets and numerals separated by narrow geometric borders, and an inscription.
label: Description
content: In the lower half, a verse in two columns and a view of Crawford, New Hampshire; all within a stylized floral border. Embroidered in colored silks on a white linen ground.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: THE YOUNG AND GIDDY Invited to Christ
label: Description
content: Young sinners to counsel give ear
label: Description
content: From Juvenile levity cease
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content: The god of omnipotence fear
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content: The fountain of wisdom and peace
label: Description
content: The gospel illumines the way
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content: To climes of extatic [sic] delight
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content: Where storms never ruffle the day
label: Description
content: And where it will never be night
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content: Your pleasures are empty and vain
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content: And can but a moment endure
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content: They yield by confusion and pain
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content: The soul to destruction allure
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content: Why slight ye the Saviour o say
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content: To save you he yielded his breath
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content: The tempests of life he can lay
label: Description
content: And cheer the lone valley of death
place: label: made in
content: Crawford, 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: 1941-69-4
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 cross, satin, and eyelet stitches on plain weave foundation Label: linen embroidered with silk in cross, satin and eyelet stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 48 x 50 cm (18 7/8 x 19 11/16 in.)