Sampler
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1830
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Emily F. Cooley, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The field contains a verse, surrounded by an elaborate strawberry vine border which twists around a straight blue frame.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: Virtue
label: Description
content: Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul,
label: Description
content: Is the best gift of Heaven's happiness
label: Description
content: That, even above the smiles and frowns of fate,
label: Description
content: Exalts great nature's favorites a wealth
label: Description
content: The ne'er encumbers, nor to base hands
label: Description
content: Can be transferred. It is the only good
label: Description
content: Man justly boasts of, or can call his own.
place: label: made in
content: New York, USA
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1981-28-434
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 stitch (compound and looping) on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 43.2 x 41.9 cm (17 x 16 1/2 in.)