Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1737
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Margaret Grant, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The field contains an alphabet, several scenes and scattered figures, including The Three Fates, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Expulsion, a lady and gentleman in contemporary costume, a hunter, sheep and birds, a verse in two columns, and signature, all within a stylized floral border.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: Let none despise the criss cross row
label: Description
content: How soon poor Adam was they freedome lost
label: Description
content: Forfeit to death ere thou hadst time to boast
label: Description
content: Before thy Triumph was thy Glory done
label: Description
content: Betwixt a Rising and a Setting sun
label: Description
content: How soon that ends that should have ended never
label: Description
content: Thine eyes ner slept until they slept forever
label: Description
content: Margaret Grant her work begun April the 18 1737 in the 9th year of her age
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 Mrs. Henry E. Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-69-6
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 two-sided cross, stem, buttonhole, satin, and long-armed cross stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 42 x 40.5 cm (16 9/16 x 15 15/16 in. )