Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1852
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary McIlroy
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper third has a religious verse; lower two-thirds spot motifs and the inscription in a floral wreath. Surrounded by a flowering vine border on all sides.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
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content: Poor, weak and sinful though I am
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content: I have a rich Almighty Friend
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content: Jesus the Saviour is His name
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content: He freely loves, and without end
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content: He found me wandering far from God
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content: And brought me to his chosen fold
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content: Redeemed me with His precious blood
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content: And with His power my foes controlled
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content: He cheers my heart my wants supplies
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content: And says that I shall shortly be
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content: Enthroned with Him above the skies
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content: Oh! what a Friend is Christ to me!
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content: Oh where are those mansions of light
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content: That home, ever happy and fair
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content: That land where the days are all bright
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content: Unsullied by sorrow and care
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content: Far far from this valley of tears
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content: The Saviour has gone to prepare
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content: Those mansions, and when he appears
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content: His people shall dwell with Him there
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content: Oh happy and glorious 'twill be
label: Description
content: To meet in those mansions above
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content: From sin and from sorrow set free
label: Description
content: All perfect for ever in love!
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: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-430
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitches (cross stitch is looping, backward movement type) on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 54 x 43.8 cm (21 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.)