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Alphabet/Verse Sampler. Vertical rectangle on ivory linen, strawberry and vine border. Verse above, large scale flowers, small scale house and animals below. Alphabet: letters "U" & "V" are reversed, the letter "J" is missing. Numbers: 1-8. Other stitches: satin stitch, cross stitch. Gilt wooden frame.
samplers (embroidery)
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cross-stitching
embroidering
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architecture (object genre)
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Aves (class)
education
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Silk
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Sampler
""There would I find a settled rest/ While others go and come/ No more a stranger or a guest/ But like a child at home/Why do ye mourn departing friends/ Or shake at deaths alarms/ Tis but the voice that Jesus sends/To call them to his arms/Jesus can make a dying bed/Feel soft as downy pillows are/While on his breast I lean my head/And breathe my life out sweetly there""/""Louisa Camroux Aged 11 January 16 1817"" (Embroidered)
"Owned by Society for the Preservation of N.E. Antiquities--Boston" (Museum label)
Camroux, Louisa, 1806- (Embroiderer)
18 3/16 x 13 11/16 (HxW) (inches)
Anonymous gift
1948.35
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