Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1822
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Ellen Maria Odiorne, (American, 1812–1845)
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular sampler worked in black, purples and greens on a natural ground. Three alphabets, a set of numerals, a signature and a verse are surrounded on three sides by a wide grapevine border. At the bottom, a basket of grapes and four trees.
label: Description
content: The inscription reads: Ellen Maria Odiorne's Work Wrought by her in the 10th year of her age in the year of out Lord 1822
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: How various her employment whom the world
label: Description
content: Calls idle and who justly in return
label: Description
content: Esteems that busy world an idler too
label: Description
content: Friends, books, her needle and perhaps her pen
label: Description
content: Delightful industry enjoyed at home
label: Description
content: Can she want occupation who has these?
place: label: made in
content: Malden, Massachusetts, 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: 1941-69-41
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 and cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in satin, cross, eyelet and stem stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 50.5 x 36.5 cm (19 7/8 x 14 3/8 in.)