Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1805
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Betsy Adams, American
notes: label: Description
content: The center field contains an alphabet, a verse, trees and a large house. With a wide floral border on three sides, and an inscription at the bottom.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: Time has Wings and swiftly flies
label: Description
content: Youth and beauty fade away
label: Description
content: Virtue is the only prize
label: Description
content: Whose sacred joys will ne'er decay
label: Description
content: Inscribed: Betsy Adams work wrought in the ninth year of her age
place: label: made in
content: Concord, Massachusetts, 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: 1941-69-86
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, satin, stem, buttonhole and eyelet stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 57.2 x 43.2 cm (22 1/2 x 17 in.)