Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1824
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Eliza Ann Hunt, American, American, 1815 - 1845
notes: label: Description
content: A square sampler worked in black, brown, purple, green, beige and pink on a natural ground. At the top four alphabets are worked in black. At the bottom are a house, trees and flowers, and a mourning plaque beneath a willow tree. In the center, three interlocking hearts indicate that the embroiderer's father had had two wives, both of whom were now dead. The hearts are flanked by flowering branches and a verse, and the names and birthdates of the children are embroidered below.
label: Description
content: In the top left heart: Reuben Hunt bn Jan11 1783
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content: In the top right heart:
label: Description
content: Eliza Taft bn June 27 1788
label: Description
content: Sarah Snow bn dec 14 1785"
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content: In the bottom heart:
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content: Married
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content: to E T Oct 27 1814
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content: to SS March 10 1819
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content: Beneath the hearts:
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content: Eliza A Hunt bn Sep 20 1815
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content: Reuben Hunt Jr bn Dec 19 1816
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content: Sarah Hunt bn feb 8 1820
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content: Martha A Hunt bn Nov 7 1822
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content: The tomb reads:
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content: Sacred to the memory of
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content: Mrs Eliza Hunt who died Jan 6 1817
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content: Mrs Sarah Hunt died Sep 28 1823
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content: The verse:
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content: Jesus permit thy gracious name to stand
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content: As the first efforts of an infant's hand
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content: And while her fingers o'er this canvas move
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content: Enlist her tender heart to seek they love
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content: With thy dear children let her share a part
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content: And write thy name they self upon her heart
label: Description
content: Wrought by Eliza Ann Hunt aged nine years 1824
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-69-162
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery, linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, knot, split, and stem stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 42 x 44 cm (16 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.)