Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1786
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Harriet Bradbury, (American)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Large vase of flowers with verse above and inscription below, surrounded on three sides with a border of roses set in octagonal frames. The verse reads:
label: Description
content: The maid who led by wisdom's guiding hand
label: Description
content: Seek's virtue's temple and her law reveres
label: Description
content: She She alone in honours dome shall stand
label: Description
content: Crownd with Rewards and rais'd above her peers
label: Description
content: Re cording annals shall preserve her name
label: Description
content: And give her virtues immortal fame
label: Description
content: And the inscription:
label: Description
content: Done by Harriet Bradbury August 17 1786
place: label: made in
content: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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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: 1941-69-67
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 cross, satin and stem stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 49 x 38 cm (19 5/16 x 14 15/16 in.)