Sampler
1800s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Sampler, 1800s. England, 19th century. Embroidery; silk on woolen canvas; overall: 48.3 x 48 cm (19 x 18 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George W. Bierce 1943.107
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sampler
- Formatted Medium
- embroidery; silk on woolen canvas
- Medium
- embroidery, silk, woolen, canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 48.3 x 48 cm (19 x 18 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: above, left-hand stanza: "To the Flower called Forget Me Not./ Fond memory's Flower, of azure dye,/ Permit thy Bard one boon to crave,/ when in Death's narrow bed I lie,/ Oh! bloom around My humble Grave."; right-hand stanza: "And if some tender faithful Friend/ should, led by Love, approach the spot,/ And o er thy Flowers admiring bend./ Then say for me Forget me not!/ Mrs. Opie"; below basket of flowers: "Ann Rome."
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1943.107
- Credit Line
- Gift of George W. Bierce
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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