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Verse sampler with geometric boder in plain wooden frame. Trees, basket of fruit and two-story yellow house with dirt path embroidered under verse. Polychromatic. Vertical rectangle on natural linen ground. Cross stitch, Satin stitch, whip stitch, Gobelin
samplers (embroidery)
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Sampler
"Let not this world our future views employ/For all its treasure give but trancient joy/Riches have wings and grandue is a dream/And friends deceive however fair they seem/Catharine Glezen's Work AD 1809" (Embroidered)
"A.A. Childs Manufactory + Co./ W.S. CHILD ESTABLISHED 1837/Paintings and Prints restored/Picture Frames/352 Washington St./Boston" (Printed label)
Glezen, Catharine (Embroiderer)
18 9/16 x 14 13/16 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Edwin Buckingham Sears
1987.455
Massachusetts (United States)
Wayland (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
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