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Artist
Eliza Cordelia Hildreth
1808
Date1818-08-01 - 1818-08-31
Terms
- Samplers
- Linen
- Silk Fiber
- Concord (Massachusetts)
Dimensions45.08 × 45.08 cm (17 3/4 × 17 3/4 in.)
MarkingsInscription: "Eliza Cordelia/ Hildreth Wrought/ this aged 10/ Concord
August/ AD 1818."
Credit LineGift of Anne and Peter Brooke (2001)
Object number2001.14
DescriptionTextile. Silk threads on a linen ground. Sampler worked with silk inscription in a reserve flanked by trees. Above is the verse: "How
pleasant is yon oaks brown shade/ The spreading beach the adjacent glade/ The crystal streams that smoothly slide/ The warbling thrush at even tide" and above that upper and lower case alphabets. Surrounded on three sides by a compound border, typical of Concord samplers, consisting of a double sawtooth border, a large meander with rose sprays, a smaller meander and a single sawtooth border.
pleasant is yon oaks brown shade/ The spreading beach the adjacent glade/ The crystal streams that smoothly slide/ The warbling thrush at even tide" and above that upper and lower case alphabets. Surrounded on three sides by a compound border, typical of Concord samplers, consisting of a double sawtooth border, a large meander with rose sprays, a smaller meander and a single sawtooth border.
Collections
- Needlework
Object number: 2007.336
Lucia Maria
1800 - 1899
Object number: PER2165.0001L
Object number: PER2165.0001N
Object number: COS64.59O