Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1817
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary Halbert, English
label: Student of
content: A. Hart, English
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: "Motto./ Letters were first designed to instruct and bless mankind/ Seize pupils seize the present fleeing hour/ Improve the passing moment as it flies/ Youth will soon be past man is a flower/ Whose bloom soon fades alas how soon he dies./ Virtue and truth when are combined/ Refine the manners form the mind/ And when with industry they meet/ The female character is complete/ Mary Halbert sampler wrought in Westmoreland/ July 31st in the year of our Lord 1817. A Hart Instructress./ The needle and pen teach wisdom."
place: label: made in
content: Westmoreland, England
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: 1981-28-63
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 and eyelet stitches on plain weave foundation; patches of cotton
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 37.5 x 47 cm (14 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)