Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Bands of alphabets and numerals separated by narrow geometric cross borders, followed by a verse and inscription.
- The verse reads:
- To a friend when the bloom of thy cheek shall have faded
- away, And death gloomy impress darken thy brow
- When that love (?) shall be cold in the clay and that are (?)
- the children which playd (?) now. Oh think not that/ when thou art pillowed in earth and thy soul to the (?)
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Embroiderer
- Elizabeth Freeman Tooker, American
- Date
- 1826
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
- Medium
- Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, upright Gobelin, and rococo stitches on plain weave foundation
- Dimensions
- H x W: 54.6 x 38.1 cm (21 1/2 x 15 in.)
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Sampler
