Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1808
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Phebe Hill, American, 1797 - 1859
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Decorative framework with New Bedford Dec. 1808 at the top, Phebe Hill aged 11 years at the bottom, and floral sprigs at the sides. In the field, several alphabets, zigzag borders, and a verse:
label: Description
content: Our lives are ever on the wing
label: Description
content: And death is ever nigh,
label: Description
content: The moment that our lives begin
label: Description
content: We all begin to die
place: label: made in
content: New Bedford, Connecticut, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1981-28-159
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 41.9 x 25.4 cm (16 1/2 x 10 in.)