Sampler
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1836
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A memorial inscription enclosed in a floral wreath, embroidered primarily in yellows with green and brown. A morning glory appears in each corner, and a very narrow floral vine border frames the whole. The inscription reads:
label: Description
content: In memory of Mary F Baldwin
label: Description
content: Born Sept. 9th 1824 & Died on Oct. 22nd 1836
label: Description
content: Aged 12 years, 1 month & 13 days
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content: By Mary's hands this wreath was wrought
label: Description
content: Then very distant was the thought
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content: Its center would so soon disclose
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content: Her epitaph: her parents woes
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content: She's gone her mortal pace is run
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content: Great God: Thy will not ours be done
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content: Also in memory of James G Baldwin born Feb 10th, 1831
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content: And died Nov'm 12th 1836 Aged 5 years 9 months & 2 days
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content: Farewell Dear Children God has call'd thee home
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content: And left thy weeping friends on Earth to Roam
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content: We trust e're long on Canaans happy shore
label: Description
content: To meet thee there to part with thee no more
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: 1974-100-1
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 on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 44.5 x 52cm (17 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.)