Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1833
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary Eyre
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An embroidered sampler with a scene of two mountains with rivers flowing from them. A figure in chains and a simple loin cloth kneels between them, with his hands raised in prayer. Above, a verse is flanked by two medallions supported by angels. With a floral border on three sides.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: The Converted Indian's Prayer
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content: In de dark wood no indian nigh
label: Description
content: Den me look heaven and send up cry
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content: Upon my knee so low
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content: Dat god so high in shiny place
label: Description
content: See me nigh with teary face
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content: My priest do tell me so
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content: He send his angels take me care
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content: He come his self and hear my prayer
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content: If indian heare do pray
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content: Within the medallions:
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content: The angels of the lord bless ye the lord praise him and magnify him for ever
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content: and
label: Description
content: The angel of the lord cried loud saying prepare to meet thy god
place: label: made in
content: England or 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: 1941-69-253
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and wool embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation Label: linen embroidered with silk and wool in cross stitch
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 73.5 x 69 cm (28 15/16 x 27 3/16 in.)