Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1838
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary Bridge, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The field is filled with scattered motifs of flowering trees, urns of flowers, birds, stars, and an angel. In the lower right corner, Adam and Eve flank the Tree of Knowledge, with the inscription: The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
label: Description
content: In the center is a four-verse hymn:
label: Description
content: HOW beauteous are their feet,
label: Description
content: Who stand on sion's hill;
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content: Who bring salvation in their tongues,
label: Description
content: And words of peace reveal.
label: Description
content: How cheering is their voice
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content: How sweet the tidings are;
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content: Sion behold thy savior king;
label: Description
content: He reigns and triumphs here.
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content: How blessed are our ears
label: Description
content: That hear this joyful sound,
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content: Which kings and prophets waited for,
label: Description
content: And sought, but never found.
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content: How blessed are our eyes
label: Description
content: That see this heavenly light,
label: Description
content: Prophets and kings desired long
label: Description
content: But died without the sight.
label: Description
content: And the inscription, with a curving floral vine border on four sides.
place: label: made in
content: 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 Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-133
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 and marking cross stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 52 x 55.9 cm (20 1/2 x 22 in.)