Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Decorative framework with New Bedford Dec. 1808 at the top, Phebe Hill aged 11 years at the bottom, and floral sprigs at the sides. In the field, several alphabets, zigzag borders, and a verse:
- Our lives are ever on the wing
- And death is ever nigh,
- The moment that our lives begin
- We all begin to die
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Embroiderer
- Phebe Hill, American, 1797 - 1859
- Date
- 1808
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
- Medium
- Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation
- Dimensions
- H x W: 41.9 x 25.4 cm (16 1/2 x 10 in.)
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Sampler
