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- Title: Sampler
- Date Created: 1817
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 42.3 x 34 cm (16 5/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
- Type: Sampler
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.111
- Medium: embroidery; silk on woolen canvas
- Inscriptions: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTVUWXYZ/ abcdefghijklmnopqrstvuwxyz12345/ [rows of coronets surmounted by descriptive initials] V[iscount] B[aron] P[rince] K[ing] Q[ueen] D[uke] M[arquis]/ 1 2 3 4 5 6 + +7 8 9 10 11/ In other men we faults can spy./ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find,/ To our own stonger errors blind./ Ere we remark another's sin, Let our own conscience look within./ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ Susan Dawn's work in the fourteenth year of her age. 1817."
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: England, early 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of George W. Bierce
- Collection: Textiles
- Accession Number: 1943.111
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