Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Ann Porter Bent, English
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: With a curving strawberry border text: "Blest truth descend and dwell within my heart/ O shed thy beams and never more depart/ Then when of self or others I may speak/ My words shall be sincere and kind and meek." Then a signature.
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 Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-138
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 38.7 x 34.3 cm (15 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.)