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A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
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A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
VERMONT, DATED 1829
Worked in black, green, yellow, cream, white, and beige silk threads in a variety of stitches including chain, satin, cross and eyelet in five horizontal alphabetical bands above the wrought verse, "FRIENDSHIP Friendship thou charmer of the mind Thou so... deluding ill The brightest minutes mortals find And sharpest hours we feel Fate has divided all our Shares Of Pleasure and of Pain I love the comforts and the cares Are mixd [sic] and join'd again/ Oh why Should bliss dePart in haste And Friendship stay to moan Why the fond Passion cling so fast When every joy is gone Yet never let our harts divide Nor death dissolve the chain For love and joy were once allay'd And must be joined again//Wrought in 1829" above a pictorial scene centering a weeping willow flanked on one side by a Federal house and on the other by the identifying inscription, "Hannah M. Elkins Born in Windham Oct 15th 1814" over the wrought verse, "Sweet the hours of tribulation When the heart can freely sigh And the tear of resignation Twinkles in the mournful eye" the whole surrounded by a border of meandering flowers and urns--25in. high, 16½in. wide
VERMONT, DATED 1829
Worked in black, green, yellow, cream, white, and beige silk threads in a variety of stitches including chain, satin, cross and eyelet in five horizontal alphabetical bands above the wrought verse, "FRIENDSHIP Friendship thou charmer of the mind Thou so... deluding ill The brightest minutes mortals find And sharpest hours we feel Fate has divided all our Shares Of Pleasure and of Pain I love the comforts and the cares Are mixd [sic] and join'd again/ Oh why Should bliss dePart in haste And Friendship stay to moan Why the fond Passion cling so fast When every joy is gone Yet never let our harts divide Nor death dissolve the chain For love and joy were once allay'd And must be joined again//Wrought in 1829" above a pictorial scene centering a weeping willow flanked on one side by a Federal house and on the other by the identifying inscription, "Hannah M. Elkins Born in Windham Oct 15th 1814" over the wrought verse, "Sweet the hours of tribulation When the heart can freely sigh And the tear of resignation Twinkles in the mournful eye" the whole surrounded by a border of meandering flowers and urns--25in. high, 16½in. wide
Provenance
Collection of Katherine Murphy