Family register sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1830
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Dorcas A. Kelly, (American, 1818–1881)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An arched framework with an incomplete family register. The top of the arch reads Keep Sacred the Memory Of. The field within the arch is divided in three registers: the top, titled Ancestors, gives the birth and marriage dates of David Kelly and Amy Comstock; the middle register includes a tree with the names and dates of their children; and the lower register has a verse within a leafy border:
label: Description
content: Religion
label: Description
content: Beyond the narrow vale of time
label: Description
content: Where bright celestial ages roll
label: Description
content: To scenes eternal scenes sublime
label: Description
content: She points the way and leads the soul
label: Description
content: Followed by the inscription. A border of roses in an octagon framework terminating with rose sprays at upper corners gives the effect of a trellis.
place: label: made in
content: Mendon, 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: 1941-69-70
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Family register sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin and stem stitches on plain weave foundation Label: linen embroidered with silk in cross, satin and stem stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 49 x 47 cm (19 5/16 x 18 1/2 in.)