Object number1960.9.47
Sampler
Date1800
Artist
Harriot Ide
(English)
CultureEnglish
MediumSilk embroidery threads on wool ground
DimensionsSight: 14 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (36.83 × 29.85 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. James W. Packard (Elizabeth Gillmer, class of 1894)
Period19th c
Classification(s)
SignedHarriot Ide / Finish'd December th 5 / Aged 10 years 1800
Inscribed A Man that doth on Riches set his Mind / Strives to take hold on / shadows and the Wind / With Food and Raiment then contented be / Ask not for Riches nor for Poverty
"Harriot Ide / Finish'd December th 5 / Aged 10 years 1800" ("th 5" is stitched above "December")
BibliographyThanks be to my Friends: Selected Samplers from the Collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2004)
Sampler ("A Man that doth on Riches fixes his Mind...")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, 2004DescriptionThe Harriot Ide 1800 sampler is laid out in three horizontal registers separated by two decorative bands. At the top a four line verse stitched in black thread is flanked by matching flowering plants in urns and topped by black birds with yellow legs and beaks. Pine trees and scattered small flowering plants surround the urn. Below is a rosebud or strawberry decorative dividing band. The second register is centered on a vining flower twining around a support, topped by a yellow bird and flanked by matching compositions of pollarded trees, baskets, eight point stars, black birds, hearts, and red birds atop espaliered fruit trees . Below a red, white and yellow floral dividing band the lower half of the sampler contains the inscription framed by a crenellated floral border flanked by baskets with tulips and parrots and flowering shrubs in cachepot surmounted by 2 potted auricula on either side of a flowering carnation planted in a two handle urn. Hearts, stars and 3 sets of paired birds complete the arrangement. The sampler is framed by a stylized rosebud or strawberry border.
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