Object Details
- Embroiderer
- Martha Rayne, English
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Within a curving strawberry border, the tablets of Moses, one containing the Lord's Prayer, the other a verse:
- A Hymn
- Why should I love my sport so well
- So constant at my play
- and lose the thoughts of heaven and hell
- and then forget to pray
- What do I read my bible for
- but Lord to learn thy will
- and shall I daily know thee more
- And less obey the still now senseless in my heart and wild.
- With the inscription:
- Martha Rayne ended this in the year of our Lord 1734
- 1734
- Accession Number
- 1975-86-6
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Sampler
- Medium
- Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in counted cross and half-cross stitches on plain weave foundation
- Dimensions
- H x W: 24.1 x 20.3 cm (9 1/2 x 8 in.)
- made in
- England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1975-86-6
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq47748b15b-e635-412d-97b4-1d884806619b
