Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1806
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Sally Hall, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Embroidered in white on a green ground are two alphabets, followed by
label: Description
content: Register of Timothy Hall's Family
label: Description
content: Who was born June 4th 1758 and
label: Description
content: Married April 3 1783 to Eunice Hills
label: Description
content: Who was born March 25 1760
label: Description
content: Died June 24th 1797 and by her
label: Description
content: hath the following children
label: Description
content: Followed by a table of the children's names and birth and death dates. Below, the inscription and a verse:
label: Description
content: Happy the youth whose green unpractised [sic] years
label: Description
content: The guiding hand of parent fondness rears
label: Description
content: To rich instructions ample field removes
label: Description
content: Prunes every fault and every worth improves
place: label: made in
content: East Hartford, Connecticut, 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 Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-137
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery, wool warp, linen weft Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 39.4 x 33.7 cm (15 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)