Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1835
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Ann E. Armstrong, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A large tomb surmounted by an urn in the center, with the inscription To the memory of my beloved Father. With a tree and a verse on each side, and surrounded by a grape vine border.
label: Description
content: The verses read:
label: Description
content: This languishing head is at rest
label: Description
content: Its thinking and aching are o'er
label: Description
content: This quiet immovable breast
label: Description
content: Is heav'd by affliction no more
label: Description
content: This heart is no longer the seal
label: Description
content: Of trouble and torturing pain
label: Description
content: It ceases to flutter and beat
label: Description
content: It never shall flutter again
place: label: made in
content: USA
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1974-100-11
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 on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 43.2 x 43.8 cm (17 x 17 1/4 in.)