Object number1960.9.88
Sampler
Date1824
Artist
C. Wren
(English)
CultureEnglish
Mediumsilk threads on linen
DimensionsSight (mostly square): 15 3/4 x 12 5/8 in. (40 x 32 cm)
Framed: 17 5/8 x 14 5/8 x 3/4 in. (44.8 x 37.1 x 1.9 cm)
Framed: 17 5/8 x 14 5/8 x 3/4 in. (44.8 x 37.1 x 1.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. James W. Packard (Elizabeth Gillmer, class of 1894)
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedC Wren 1824
InscribedInscribed: If Jesus be yours you have a true friend / His goodness endures the same to the end / Your temper may vary your comforts decline / You cannot miscarry your aid is divine
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Modeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women," January 27-March 15, 2000.DescriptionThe C Wren 1824 sampler is a formally balanced composition consisting of a religious verse in a rosebud frame above above a 2 storey, 5 bay brick house, crowned by 2 end chimneys and two confronting birds, the central doorway surmounted by a fanlight. The house is flanked by rose trees in two handled urns. Below the house a recumbent deer and stag rest in grass on either side of a balanced arrangement of a basket and pine trees. Two pairs of birds sit atop a floral shield containing the inscription. Formal vignettes of a deer (rabbit) and flowering trees and shrubs are placed in the lower right and left hand corners. A regularly undulating border of alternating blue, gold, pink, and white flowers surrounds the entire composition. Colors are green, brown, pink, red, white, gold and blue.
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