Object number1997.7.101
Sampler: Family Record or Register
Date1832
Artist
Susan Wetherbee
(American (Boxboro, Massachusetts), b.1817)
CultureAmerican
MediumSilk threads on linen ground
DimensionsSight (mostly square): 15 5/8 x 16 7/8 in. (39.7 x 42.9 cm)
Framed: 17 x 17 3/4 x 1/2 in. (43.2 x 45.1 x 1.3 cm)
Framed: 17 x 17 3/4 x 1/2 in. (43.2 x 45.1 x 1.3 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedAt center: Susanna Wetherbee
InscribedLevi Wetherbee 1785/ Sally Wetherbee 1790/ Married Nov 8, 1815/ Susanna born April 18, 1817/ Wrought by Susanna Wetherbee 1832/Life is like a summers day,/ It seems so quickly past,/ Youth is the morning bright and gay,/And if it's spent in wisdoms way,/ We meet old age without dismay,/ And death is sweet at last.
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Modeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women," January 27-March 15, 2000DescriptionSusanna Wetherbee stitched a family record sampler with names and dates enclosed in four oval floral wreaths arranged on either side of a pine tree and above the inscription. Below a dividing band , the lower third of the sampler contains a six line poem by Isaac Watts ( "The Life of Souls" published 1704. ) The sampler is stitched in greens, cream, black, gold and red.
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