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Sampler
Mary Greene, American1766
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A wide floral border with a dark blue ground divides the sampler in two. Above, alphabets, numerals and an inscription:Mary Green Her Sampler Made in the Eleventh Year of Her Age 1766 Below, a verse: Beauty and Pride We Often FindBetrays the weakness of the MindHe hansom [sic] is and merist prais [sic]That Handsom dos the proverb SaysThe loss of a father is greatBut the loss of a Mother is moreBut the loss of Christ is such a lossAs no man can restore.Surrounded on four sides by a stylized strawberry vine border.
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Details
- Title: Sampler
- Creator: Mary Greene, American
- Date Created: 1766
- Physical Dimensions: w240 x h345 cm
- Type: Sampler
- Rights: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
- Medium: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, stem and back stitches on plain weave foundation
- Provenance: ex. coll. Mrs. Henry E. Coe (Eva Johnston Coe)
- Inscribed: Mary Green Her Sampler Made in the Eleventh Year of Her Age 1766
- Exhibitions: New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Embroidered Samplers, February 21 to May 27, 1984.
- Dimensions: H x W: 34.5 x 24 cm (13 9/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Bibliography: E.S. Bolton and E. J. Coe, American Samplers (Boston: The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1921) p. 49.
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