Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1804
name: label: Embroiderer
content: ? Youde, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In the upper third, a verse flanked by two butterflies, with a stylized floral border below. The verse reads:
label: Description
content: My life is a flower. The
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content: time --- to last its
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content: mixt with frost and shook
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content: with ev'ry blast
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content: In the middle third, a scene with a house, a tree, and birds.
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content: In the lower third, a second verse, with urns of flowers on each side. The verse reads:
label: Description
content: Virtues the Chiefest
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content: beauty of the mind the noblest ornament of womankind
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content: Virtues our safeguard and our
label: Description
content: guiding star that stirs up reason when our ---
label: Description
content: With a curving strawberry border with hearts enclosed in upper corners.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1976-100-30
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, rococo, eye, satin, fishbone, back, knot and chain stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 51.4 x 40 cm (20 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)