Lydia I. Marden's Sampler
Object Details
- Marden, Lydia
- Description
- This sampler features a monument, rendered in perspective, flanked by two small trees and a flowering plant. On the top of the sampler is the inscription:
- “So fadef[s] the
lovely blooming
flower
Cut of in lifef[s]
erlief[s]t hour.” - On the monument is the inscription:
- “In Memory
of
Sarah Pervier
who died 16th
of April 1826
aged 8 monthf[s]” - The monument represents death and Lydia’s inscription on the top comes from two different sources. The first line is by Anne Steele (1716-1778) from a poem entitled “On the Death of a Child” and the second line is from a hymn that is part of the Catholic liturgy for the feast of Holy Innocents (December 28). The sampler is stitched with silk and cotton embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 44, weft 44/ in. The stitches used are cross, satin, chain, and detached chain.
- Nothing is known about the life of Lydia Marden.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M Greenwood
- 1826-1836
- ID Number
- TE.E388181
- catalog number
- E388181
- accession number
- 182022
- Object Name
- sampler
- Physical Description
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- linen (ground material)
- brown (overall color)
- grey-green (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- pink (overall color)
- tan ground (overall color)
- embroidery (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 3/4 in x 6 3/8 in; 22.225 cm x 16.1925 cm
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_649888
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-b5ae-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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