Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1836
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Matilda Jane Goddard, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A verse and inscription in the center are surrounded by a symmetrical arrangement of trees, flowering trees, fruit baskets, and birdbaths. With a strawberry vine border.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: I am the creature of the Lord
label: Description
content: He made me by his powerful word
label: Description
content: This body in each curious part
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content: was wrought by his unfailing art
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content: From him my nobler spirit came
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content: My soul a spark of heavenly flame
label: Description
content: That soul by which my body lives
label: Description
content: which thinks and hopes and joys and grieves
label: Description
content: And must in heaven or hell remain
label: Description
content: When flesh is turned to dust again
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1976-100-5-e
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in counted cross and satin stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 33.7 x 43.8 cm (13 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.)