Pictorial/Verse Sampler. Vertical rectangle, ivory linen ground. Potted flowers in top register, verse in middle register. Adam and Eve by the Tree of Knowledge. Below this a small scale pastoral scene. Floral border.
samplers (embroidery)
needlework (visual works)
cross-stitching
embroidering
linen (material)
silk (textile)
crowns (headdresses)
education
floral patterns
pastoral
poetry
Linen
Silk
Embroidered
Cross-stitched
Floral
Poetry
Pastoral
Education
Crown
Sampler
""The Lord my pasture shall prepare/And feed me with a shepard's care/His presence shall my wants supply/And guard me with a watchful eye/ My noon day walks he shall attend/And all my midnight hours defend"" ""When at this you take a view/Lord give me wisdom to direct my ways/Remember her who taught it you. I ask not riches or length of days."" ""Hannah Brown Born November the Eighteenth 178-"" ""H Brown her/work finished 1798"" (Embroidered)
Associated With Dole-Little House (Newbury, Mass.),
Adam & Eve
Brown, Hannah, 178?- (Embroiderer)
20 x 18 (HxW) (inches)
Estate of Florence Bushee
1976.361
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