Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1832
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary Hallowell, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Large basket of flowers with scattered motifs including birds, squirrels, butterflies, and floral sprays, with a verse and inscription; the border is made up of four different floral patterns. The verse reads:
label: Description
content: I am often like the lonesome dove
label: Description
content: That mourns its absent mate
label: Description
content: From hill to hill from vale to vale
label: Description
content: Its sorrows to relate
label: Description
content: But canaans land is just before
label: Description
content: Sweet spring is coming on
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content: A few more beating winds and rains
label: Description
content: And winter will be gone
place: label: made in
content: Eastern Pennsylvania, 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: 1941-69-152
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, half-cross, satin, stem, rococo, chain, four-sided, roumanian and running stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 57 x 60 cm (22 7/16 x 23 5/8 in.)