Sampler
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1810
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Jane Paterson
notes: label: Description
content: Embroidered sampler with a central octagonal enclosing an inscription embroidered in red: Job 14.1 Rev. 21. Top section filled with spot motifs such as trees, birds, flowers, baskets with flowers, geometrical shapes, and initials: JP, AP, HD, AP. Below, other motifs surround the inscription and fill the bottom section: bird perched on a branch, strawberries, cherries, floral sprigs, bowls of flowers, seashells, trees, dog, and a rabbit. Initials are JP, AP, JD. Green curlicue border.
label: Description
content: Inscription:
label: Description
content: Job 14.1 Rev. 21.
label: Description
content: Few are thy days and full of woe
label: Description
content: O man, of women born,
label: Description
content: Thy doom is written. Dust thou art.
label: Description
content: And shalt to dust return.
label: Description
content: O may we stand before the Lamb
label: Description
content: When earth and seas are fled,
label: Description
content: And hear the Judge pronounce our name
label: Description
content: With blessings on our head.
place: label: made in
content: Scotland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Marsha Carson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2022-40-2
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, wool Technique: chain and cross stitch embroidery on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (object): 37.1 × 33.7 cm (14 5/8 × 13 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (framed): 45.3 × 41.5 cm (17 13/16 × 16 5/16 in.)