Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1810
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Maria Handsley
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Geometric stepped fret in each corner with floral vines. Top has sun with flowers on each side.
label: Description
content: Sampler reads: "Since all the downward tracts of time/ Gods watchfull eye surveys/ Or who so wise to chuse our lot/ And regulate our ways/ Since none can doubt his equal love/ Unmeasurably kind/To his unerring gracious will/Be every wish resigned."
label: Description
content: Immediately below the verse are two chevron bands. In the center of panel is a bouquet of flowers and at the botton is a tall building with a tree on each side. In tiny letters under the building: MARIA HANDSLEY (?) 1810.
place: label: made in
content: England
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 Emily Coe Stowell from the Coe Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1970-28-6
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen and silk Technique: embroidery (for pattern only)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 45 x 39 cm (17 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.)