Object number1997.7.66
Sampler
Date1765
Artist
Esther Graves
(British, b.1752)
CultureBritish
MediumSilk embroidery threads on linen ground
DimensionsFramed: 17 3/4 × 13 3/4 in. (45.09 × 34.93 cm)
Unframed (Textile): 16 1/8 × 11 11/16 in. (40.96 × 29.69 cm)
Unframed (Textile): 16 1/8 × 11 11/16 in. (40.96 × 29.69 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod18th c
Classification(s)
SignedAt bottom: Esther Graves
InscribedInscribed (center section below numbers and alphabets): "Tout le monde se plaint da sa memoire. & personne ne se plaint de son jugement / Every one complains of his memory, but no body complains of his judgement / Le bonne grace est au corps. Ce que le bon sens est a lesprit / Good grace is to the body what good sence is to the mind.” ; (Verso on shingle): A piece of brown paper with the inscription "Ruins of Ancient Baths", written in decorative script.
At bottom: Esther Graves wrought this sampler in the thirteenth year of her age 1765
BibliographyThanks be to my Friends: Selected Samplers from the Collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2004) ;
Sampler ("Tout le monde se plaint..../ Every one complains...")Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Thanks be to my Friends: Selected Samplers from the Collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center," June 5-July 18, 2004
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