Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1821
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Eliza Page
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Octagonal frame enclosing three alphabets, set of numbers, darning squares, verse and picture of birds in a tree with baskets of flowers. Curving floral border on outside of frame. Two darning squares, each divided into four squares, containing eight examples simulating twill and plain weave.
label: Description
content: Verse: "Father of love o teach my voice/ with grateful accents to rejoice/ Teach me in pious strains to sing/ the mercies of my heavenly King/ Ascend then in a song of Love/ My thankful heart to God above/ Be his my voice and his my lyre/ Till voice and song in death expire."
label: Description
content: Signed Eliza Page worked this sampler July 4 1821.
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: Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1976-100-41
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 counted cross, satin, eye, stem and running stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 34.5 x 31.5 cm (13 9/16 x 12 3/8 in.)