Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1790
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Elizabeth Wilde
notes: label: Description
content: Oval sampler with Adam and Eve below a fruited tree and flanked by trees and stags. Stylized blue and white clouds above the tree. A thin black line splits the oval in half with tasseled swags of red drapery surrounding a lengthy inscription also in red. Red scrolls and a metallic thread bow at the bottom. Sampler has double borders: red zigzags and a scrolling floral vine.
label: Description
content: Inscription:
label: Description
content: One the Fall of Man
label: Description
content: Man was by heaven made to govern all
label: Description
content: But how unfit demonstrates in his Fall
label: Description
content: Created pure and with a strength endu'd
label: Description
content: Of Grace divine sufficient to have stood
label: Description
content: But alienate from God he soon became
label: Description
content: The Child of Wrath Pride Misery & Shame
label: Description
content: Elizabeth Wilde Her Work 1790
place: label: made in
content: 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 Marsha Carson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2022-40-16
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, wool, metal yarn Technique: cross, chain, stem and satin stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (object): 36.8 × 32.1 cm (14 1/2 × 12 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (framed): 43.7 × 39 cm (17 3/16 × 15 3/8 in.)