Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A sampler of isolated motifs and texts within a curving floral border. The wool foundation cloth is very fine, and the embroidery from word to word shows through from the other side. The text reads, "Behold the Labour of My tender Age and View this work Which did My hours Engage with Anxious care I did Those colors Place to gain A smile From my dear parents Face whose Care for Me I ever did Regard and Hope that Heaven will Send A kind Reward those little faults I hope You will Excuse then Your commands On me I'll not Refuse." It concludes at the bottom, 'This Sampler Was Worked By Various Hands And Finished In The Year Of Our Lord 1819."
place: label: made in
content: England
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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 Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-74
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, eyelet and running stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 44.5 x 34.9 cm (17 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.)