Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1831
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Margaret Barnholt, (American)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A sampler with six scenes: a church with a garden, figures, animals, birds and butterflies in front; the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve; and a mourning scene with a weeping willow, and funerary urn, and four figures, two adults and two children. Three additional scenes show figures with animals and trees. With a rose vine border.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: Mother dear weep not for me
label: Description
content: When to this yard my grave you see
label: Description
content: my time was short and blest was he
label: Description
content: that called me to eternity
place: label: made in
content: Pennsylvania, USA
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 Mrs. Henry E. Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-69-153
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton and silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross and stem stitches on plain weave foundation Label: cotton embroidered with cotton and silk in cross and stem stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 66.7 x 57.2 cm (26 1/4 x 22 1/2 in.)