Elizabeth Marx's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1802
name: label: maker
content: Marx, Elizabeth
notes: label: Description
content: Verse and two wide floral crossbands, both arcaded, one with roses and one with strawberries and forget-me-nots. Two eight-pointed stars. Black guidelines under flowers in rose crossband. Center section framed in band of sawtooth. Border of geometric flowering vine with strawberries and pinks, and an outer row of dentil pattern on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, straight, Algerian eye, satin, surface satin, encroaching satin, stem, queen, outline. THREAD COUNT: warp 40, weft 38/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "Here In This Garden Here Below<br>Water Me That I May Grow<br>And When All Grace To Me Is Given<br>Then Transplant Me Into Heaven<br>
label: Description
content: Elizabeth Marx Her Work 1802"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: This is probably the Elizabeth born on March 20, 1790, to George and Elizabeth Marx in Reading, Pennsylvania. According to the records from the Trinity Lutheran Church in Reading, she married Christian Brobst on September 6, 1812. She died June 20, 1847 and is buried at the Union/West End Cemetery in Allentown, Lehigh, PA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Reading
topic: label: depicted
content: Flowers
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Samplers
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Mary Ellen Totten
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11651
label: catalog number
content: T11651.000
label: accession number
content: 222389
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 3/4 in x 14 in; 42.545 cm x 35.56 cm