Elizabeth Orme's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1833
name: label: user
content: Orme, Elizabeth
label: maker
content: Orme, Elizabeth
notes: label: Description
content: Large cornucopia of flowers and leaves above verse, with geometric carnation border. Flowers include morning glory, moss rose, sweet peas, and lily. Brown guidelines under cornucopia and flowers. Maker's age and date written in ink, probably added later. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: Cross, crosslet, herringbone. THREAD COUNT: warp 30, weft 28/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscription:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "The star of Bethlehem<br>Brighter than the rising day<br>When the sun of glory shines;<br>Brighter than the diamond's ray<br>Sparkling in Golonda's [sic] mines<br>Beaming through the clouds of wo<br>Smiles in Mercy's diadem<br>On the guilty world below<br>The Star that rose in Bethlehem<br> Elizabeth Orme<br>Novr 9th" <br>written in ink after the inscription is "1833 Age 9"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Elizabeth was born about 1825 to Sarah and Thomas Orme in Washington, D.C. She married James Hizer on September 6, 1854, but by the 1860 census, she was widowed and living with her mother and sister Anna, who was also a widow. Elizabeth died in 1892 of tuberculosis. See her mother's (Sarah Kurtz) sampler. Anna's daughter Mary donated her grandmother's and aunt's samplers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Georgetown
label: associated place
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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 Mary E. Lyddane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T07319
label: accession number
content: 124663
label: catalog number
content: T7319
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: amber (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cream ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 7/8 in x 17 1/4 in; 53.0225 cm x 43.815 cm