Family register sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1833
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Abigail Barnard, American, 1806 - 1885
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Family Record giving the dates of birth, marriage and death of members of the Barnard family. At the top, two octagonal cartouches with blue grounds are separated by a basket of fruit and birds. The primary information is arranged in a table with columns of pink, white and tan. Two square cartouches at the bottom with blue grounds and a basket of fruit between, contain a verse:
label: Description
content: Time flies a Pace
label: Description
content: In ceaseless race
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content: Man hurries to the tomb
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content: In bliss or woe
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content: Ere long to know
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content: His everlasting doom
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content: Then let thy heart
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content: Who ere thou art
label: Description
content: To wisdoms way incline
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content: Use well this hour
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content: While in thy Power
label: Description
content: For the next may not be thine
label: Description
content: With a strawberry vine border and inscription.
label: Description
content: The death date for the second Abigail Barnard (daughter) has been written in with ink "Oct. 2. 1885" Several of the dates are later than the date given in the signature.
place: label: made in
content: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 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: 1941-69-19
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Family register sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and cotton embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation Label: linen embroidered with silk and cotton in cross stitch
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 44.5 x 44 cm (17 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.)