Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1821
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Izelle Shaw Adams, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seven bands of alphabets and numerals at the top; two verses, and an inscription in an oval medallion flanked by urns of flowers.
label: Description
content: The verses read:
label: Description
content: Proverbs
label: Description
content: Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised,
label: Description
content: Give her of the works of her hands and let her own words praise her in the gates
label: Description
content: Education
label: Description
content: In education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the trees inclined,
label: Description
content: With pleasure let us own our errors past and make each day a critic on the last
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: 1976-100-45
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 counted cross, long-armed cross, satin, stem, daisy and eyelet stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 43.8 x 41.9 cm (17 1/4 x 16 1/2 in.)