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sampler, embroidery

human history
  • Other Name

    Religion should our thoughts engage... embroidered sampler, 1812

  • Description

    Empbroidered sampler, England, 1812

    Sampler worked by Mary Greenwood, aged 11 years, 1811-1812.

    sampler with large turreted building ( Soloman's Temple), border, verse, floral motifs motifs, signature and date.

    signed along bottom edge: "Mary Greenwood. Aged 11. January 2 1812"

    verse: "Religion should our thoughts engage, / Amidst our youthful bloom./ 'Twill fit us for declining age / And for the awful tomb."

    Mary Greenwood's sampler shows a large building which may have been her depiction of a building about which she was familiar. The absence of alphabets and numerals, combined with the decorative nature of the design suggest that this was not the stitcher's first sampler.

    Vivien Caughley, Volunteer, Applied Arts

  • Place
    England
  • Associated Place

    [England]

  • Accession Number
    1968.183
  • Accession Date
    1968
  • Other Id

    col.2305 (colonial)

    T735 (textile)

  • Department

    History

    Social History

sampler T735

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  • sampler T735
  • sampler T735
  • sampler, front
  • sampler, front top LH
  • sampler, front, top centre, inscription
  • sampler, front top RH
  • sampler, front lower half including Name
  • sampler, front lower RH
  • sampler, back
  • sampler, front
  • sampler
  • sampler, lower half

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