Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1834
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Sarah Roper
notes: label: Description
content: Embroidered sampler with black and red stitching on light brown linen. Four alphabets and numerals are on the top section. Inscription below:
label: Description
content: Reasons whole pleasure all the joys of sense
label: Description
content: Lie in three words health peace and competence
label: Description
content: But health consists with temperance alone
label: Description
content: And peace oh virtue peace is all thy own
label: Description
content: Remember thy creator in the days of thy youth
label: Description
content: Sarah Roper June 1834
label: Description
content: In the 8th year of her age
label: Description
content: Died May 21st 1835
place: label: made in
content: probably England
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 Marsha Carson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2022-40-13
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, cotton, wool Technique: embroidered
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (object): 30.5 × 32.4 cm (12 in. × 12 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (framed): 33.8 × 35.3 × 2.2 cm (13 5/16 × 13 7/8 × 7/8 in.)