Sampler
Margaret Grant1737
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
The field contains an alphabet, several scenes and scattered figures, including The Three Fates, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Expulsion, a lady and gentleman in contemporary costume, a hunter, sheep and birds, a verse in two columns, and signature, all within a stylized floral border. The verse reads: Let none despise the criss cross rowHow soon poor Adam was they freedome lostForfeit to death ere thou hadst time to boastBefore thy Triumph was thy Glory doneBetwixt a Rising and a Setting sunHow soon that ends that should have ended neverThine eyes ner slept until they slept foreverMargaret Grant her work begun April the 18 1737 in the 9th year of her age
- Title: Sampler
- Creator: Margaret Grant
- Date Created: 1737
- Physical Dimensions: w405 x h420 cm
- Type: Sampler
- Rights: Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe
- Medium: Medium: silk and linen embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in two-sided cross, stem, buttonhole, satin, and long-armed cross stitches on plain weave foundation
- Provenance: ex. coll. Mrs. Henry E. Coe (Eva Johnston Coe)
- Inscribed: Margaret Grant her work begun April the 18 1737 in the 9th year of her age
- Exhibitions: Embroidered Samplers, 1984Museum of Early American Folk Art, Collector's Choice Part II, May 12 - July 5, 1970
- Dimensions: H x W: 42 x 40.5 cm (16 9/16 x 15 15/16 in. )
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