Lydia I. Marden's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1826-1836
name: label: maker
content: Marden, Lydia
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler features a monument, rendered in perspective, flanked by two small trees and a flowering plant. On the top of the sampler is the inscription:<br>
label: Description
content: “So fade<i>f</i>[s] the<br>lovely blooming<br>flower<br><br>Cut of in life<i>f</i>[s]<br>erlie<i>f</i>[s]t hour.”<br>
label: Description
content: On the monument is the inscription:<br>
label: Description
content: “In Memory<br>of<br>Sarah Pervier<br>who died 16th<br>of April 1826<br>aged 8 month<i>f</i>[s]”<br>
label: Description
content: The monument represents death and Lydia’s inscription on the top comes from two different sources. The first line is by Anne Steele (1716-1778) from a poem entitled “On the Death of a Child” and the second line is from a hymn that is part of the Catholic liturgy for the feast of Holy Innocents (December 28). The sampler is stitched with silk and cotton embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 44, weft 44/ in. The stitches used are cross, satin, chain, and detached chain.
label: Description
content: Nothing is known about the life of Lydia Marden.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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 Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E388181
label: catalog number
content: E388181
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: grey-green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: tan ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 6 3/8 in; 22.225 cm x 16.1925 cm