Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1799
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary Ann Howard
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Memorial verse with a curving floral border. Verse reads:
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content: "Take holy Earth:
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content: All that my soul holds dear:
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content: Take that best gift which Heav'n so lately gave:
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content: To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form:
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content: She bow'd to taste the wave, and died-does youth,
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content: does beauty read the line?
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content: Does sympathetic fear their breast alarm?
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content: Speak dead MARIA: Breath a strain divine,
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content: Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm.
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content: Bid them be chaste, be innocent like thee,
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content: Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move,
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content: And if so fair, from vanity as free,
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content: As firm in friendship, and as fond in love.
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content: Tell them, tho tis an awful thing to die
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content: (Twas ev'n to thee)
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content: yet the dread path once trod,
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content: Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high,
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content: And bids the pure in heart behold their God.
label: Description
content: Underneath this stone doth lie,
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content: As much virtue as cou'd die,
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content: which when alive did vigour give,
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content: To as much beauty as cou'd live.
label: Description
content: Signed "Mary Ann Howard, April the 26 1799."
place: label: made in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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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: 1976-100-44
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk on wool Technique: cross, stem and satin stitches on plain weave foundation. Counted stitches.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 40 x 32.4 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/4 in.)