SIGNED MARIETTE TURNER, DATED 1834
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A SILK-ON-LINEN SAMPLER
Signed Mariette Turner, dated 1834
Worked in brown, yellow, green, blue and cream silk threads on a linen ground in seven alphabetical registers in various stitches flanked by flowers above a horizontal verse inscribed "Mariette Turner was born September 17th/AD 1824 and wrought these copies AD 1834" over a leaf and meandering vine border above a horizontal verse inscribed "Let not words nor looks of art/Win thy young and happy heart/Let not beauty charm the eye/The fairest flowers will fade/and die./Remember now thy/Creator in the days/of thy youth/MT." over a border enclosing a fruiting tree flanked by geometric forms, flowers and a basket of fruit
18 x 17in. sight
Signed Mariette Turner, dated 1834
Worked in brown, yellow, green, blue and cream silk threads on a linen ground in seven alphabetical registers in various stitches flanked by flowers above a horizontal verse inscribed "Mariette Turner was born September 17th/AD 1824 and wrought these copies AD 1834" over a leaf and meandering vine border above a horizontal verse inscribed "Let not words nor looks of art/Win thy young and happy heart/Let not beauty charm the eye/The fairest flowers will fade/and die./Remember now thy/Creator in the days/of thy youth/MT." over a border enclosing a fruiting tree flanked by geometric forms, flowers and a basket of fruit
18 x 17in. sight