Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1828
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Sally Brierley, (American)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A verse and inscription with a church below are flanked by motifs symmetrically arranged: fruit trees, roses, urns with flowering plants. Surrounded on four sides with a delicate strawberry vine border.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: Could we with Ink the Ocean fill
label: Description
content: Were the whole earth of parchment made
label: Description
content: Were every single stick a Quill
label: Description
content: And every man a scribe by trade
label: Description
content: To write the Love of GOD above
label: Description
content: Would drain the Ocean dry
label: Description
content: Nor could this Scroll contain the whole
label: Description
content: Tho stretcht from sky to sky
label: Description
content: Where the whole realm of nature mine
label: Description
content: That were a present far too small
label: Description
content: Love so amazing so divine
label: Description
content: Demands my sould my life my all
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: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-69-55
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 and counted satin stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 54 x 49 cm (21 1/4 x 19 5/16 in.)