Description:
poems and children's names in three tiered design, surrounded by vine and flowers, bottom tier house with two trees on either side, middle tier house with one tree on either side, birds and animals, top tier flowering "bush" in center, potted flowers on either side and two small floral designs between; reading/reading material; flower; animal; bird; landscape; architecture
Label Text:
This child's sampler was completed by Mary Cox, "aged ten", on May 21, 1811. The piece includes birds, floral motifs, and fanciful architecture, as well as the following moralizing verse:
Teach me to feel another's woe
To hide the fault I see
The mercy I to others show
That mercy show to me
Subjects:
Embroidery; Linen; Silk Link to share this object record:
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