Object number1997.7.83
Sampler
Date1785
Artist
Mary Storey
(English, born 1775)
CultureEnglish
MediumSilk threads on wool ground with linen handling edge
DimensionsSight (Textile): 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
Framed: 19 5/8 × 14 3/8 in. (49.85 × 36.51 cm)
Sight (Rabbet): 5/16 × 3/16 in. (0.79 × 0.48 cm)
Mount (Wool mounting panel): 18 × 12 3/4 in. (45.72 × 32.39 cm)
Framed: 19 5/8 × 14 3/8 in. (49.85 × 36.51 cm)
Sight (Rabbet): 5/16 × 3/16 in. (0.79 × 0.48 cm)
Mount (Wool mounting panel): 18 × 12 3/4 in. (45.72 × 32.39 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod18th c
Classification(s)
SignedLL: Mary Storey
InscribedInscribed: "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not onto thine own understanding In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths" "Tell me, ye knowing and discerning few. Where I may find a Friend both firm And true. Who dares stand by me when in deep Distress. And then his Love and Friendship most express." "See how the Lilies flourish white and fair See, how the Ravens fed from Heaven are. Then neer distrust thy God for Cloth and Bred, Whilst Lilies fourish and the Ravens fed;" "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. Mine is an unchanging love, Higher than the heights above, Deeper than the depth beneath, free and faithful, strong as death."
At bottom: Mary Storey Her Work In her 10th Year 1785
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Modeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women," January 27-March 15, 2000Description“Trust in the Lord...” and other verses and rows of designs. Stitches worked over one thread. Confronting stags on either side of the tree, one sheep behind each stag, 2 baskets each with 2 birds eyelet, cross, satin stitch, encroaching satin, and gobelin stitch.
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