Sampler
1779
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Sampler, 1779. England, late 18th century. Embroidery; silk on woolen canvas; overall: 32.2 x 30.5 cm (12 11/16 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George W. Bierce 1943.112
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sampler
- Formatted Medium
- embroidery; silk on woolen canvas
- Medium
- embroidery, silk, woolen, canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 32.2 x 30.5 cm (12 11/16 x 12 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: "Remember now thy Creator in the days of/ thy youth while the evil days come not, nor/ the years draw nigh, when thou fhalt fay,/ I have no pleafure in them;/ For the days of man are but as grafs for/ he flourisheth as a flower of the field./ For as foon as the wind goeth over it, it is/ gone and the place thereof shall know it no more./ Let me be wife in youth, O LORD, so that/ I fafe may tread the way I ought to go;/ Lead me, and learn me what is right and juft,/ For in thy Help, my GOD, I place my truft./ Ann Blachford Her Work Finished/ September 2, 1779./ Num. Chap. XIII ver. 23 27."
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