Sampler
1817
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Sampler, 1817. England, early 19th century. Embroidery; silk on woolen canvas; overall: 42.3 x 34 cm (16 5/8 x 13 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George W. Bierce 1943.111
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sampler
- Formatted Medium
- embroidery; silk on woolen canvas
- Medium
- embroidery, silk, woolen, canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 42.3 x 34 cm (16 5/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTVUWXYZ/ abcdefghijklmnopqrstvuwxyz12345/ [rows of coronets surmounted by descriptive initials] V[iscount] B[aron] P[rince] K[ing] Q[ueen] D[uke] M[arquis]/ 1 2 3 4 5 6 + +7 8 9 10 11/ In other men we faults can spy./ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find,/ To our own stonger errors blind./ Ere we remark another's sin, Let our own conscience look within./ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ Susan Dawn's work in the fourteenth year of her age. 1817."
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