Family register
date: label: Date
content: 1817
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Eliza Wheelock, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Embroidered in black, a record of the family of Silas Wheelock (1769-1817) and Hannah Harrington (1782-?), with columns for the births, marriages and deaths of their children, in a framework of columns surmounted by urns. Weeping willows on either side of the inscription:
label: Description
content: EW in Memory of a Parent
label: Description
content: At the bottom, a verse:
label: Description
content: As time and tide do not abide
label: Description
content: So we from time must pass
label: Description
content: Made of the dust return we must
label: Description
content: And perish like the grass
place: label: made in
content: 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: Gift of Myra and William H. Mathers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2003-14-14
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Family register
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, wool. Technique: embroidered in satin, stem, chain, and other stitches
label: Dimensions
content: Frame H x W: 43.2 x 44.5 cm (17 x 17 1/2 in.)