Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1769
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Martha Savage
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within an angularly curving border of carnations, bands of text and pattern, women in ball gowns embroidered in relief, and an oak tree with two stags, a snail and a caterpillar. At the bottom, the inscription "Martha Savage Her Work 1769" and the initials A.S. between the ladies, with a verse:
label: Description
content: "All you my frinds (sic) who now expect to see a piece of work thus performed by me. Cast not a smile upon my small endeavor. I'll strive to mend and be obedient ever."
label: Description
content: "See now the lillies flourish white and fair, see now the ravens fed from heaven are, The neer distrust thy God for cloth and bread whilst lillies flourish and the raven's fed."
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 Rosalie Coe, from the collection inherited from her mother, Eva Johnston Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1974-42-18
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: counted and uncounted stitches; cross, satin, eyelet, knots and couching stitches on plain weave foundation; interlacing
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 43.2 x 31.8 cm (17 x 12 1/2 in.)