Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Embroidered in white on a green ground are two alphabets, followed by
- Register of Timothy Hall's Family
- Who was born June 4th 1758 and
- Married April 3 1783 to Eunice Hills
- Who was born March 25 1760
- Died June 24th 1797 and by her
- hath the following children
- Followed by a table of the children's names and birth and death dates. Below, the inscription and a verse:
- Happy the youth whose green unpractised [sic] years
- The guiding hand of parent fondness rears
- To rich instructions ample field removes
- Prunes every fault and every worth improves
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Embroiderer
- Sally Hall, American
- Date
- 1806
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
- Medium
- Medium: silk embroidery, wool warp, linen weft Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation
- Dimensions
- H x W: 39.4 x 33.7 cm (15 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Sampler
