Betsy Bruce's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1822-1824
name: label: maker
content: Bruce, Betsy
notes: label: Description
content: The name “Betsy Bruce” appears at end of one alphabet. Below the alphabets is the inscription:<br>
label: Description
content: "Seize Mortals seize the present hour Lifes a short summer<br>Man’s a flower he dies alas how soon he dies. E. B. 14 Y.”<br> The “E.B.” may stand for her sister Eveline Bruce who died July 21, 1817.
label: Description
content: Betsy Bruce’s inscription is an adaptation of an <i>Ode for Winter</i> by English poet Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). The sampler is stitched with silk and cotton embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 22, weft 22/ in. The stitches used are cross, Algerian eye, and crosslet
label: Description
content: Betsy Bruce was born on September 2, 1809, in Marlborough, Vermont to Rev. Mansfield and Grace Goddard Bruce. She married Origen Smith (1810-1884) on May 11, 1837. They had two children - Irenaeus OP born on February 5, 1841, and Elizabeth, born c.1845. Betsy died on October 4, 1882.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Marlboro
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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 Miss Grace L. Temple
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T7729A
label: catalog number
content: T7729A
label: accession number
content: 139053
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk and cotton (threads material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 12 1/4 in; 30.48 cm x 31.115 cm