Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1826
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Elizabeth Freeman Tooker, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Bands of alphabets and numerals separated by narrow geometric cross borders, followed by a verse and inscription.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: To a friend when the bloom of thy cheek shall have faded
label: Description
content: away, And death gloomy impress darken thy brow
label: Description
content: When that love (?) shall be cold in the clay and that are (?)
label: Description
content: the children which playd (?) now. Oh think not that/ when thou art pillowed in earth and thy soul to the (?)
place: label: made in
content: Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
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 Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-140
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, upright Gobelin, and rococo stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 54.6 x 38.1 cm (21 1/2 x 15 in.)