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Sampler, Mary Ann Howard, Medium: silk on wool Technique: cross, stem and satin stitches on plain weave foundation. Counted stitches., Memorial verse with a curving floral border. Verse reads:, 'Take holy Earth:, All that my soul holds dear:, Take that best gift which Heav'n so lately gave:, To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form:, She bow'd to taste the wave, and died-does youth,, does beauty read the line?, Does sympathetic fear their breast alarm?, Speak dead MARIA: Breath a strain divine,, Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm., Bid them be chaste, be innocent like thee,, Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move,, And if so fair, from vanity as free,, As firm in friendship, and as fond in love., Tell them, tho tis an awful thing to die, (Twas ev'n to thee), yet the dread path once trod,, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high,, And bids the pure in heart behold their God., Underneath this stone doth lie,, As much virtue as cou'd die,, which when alive did vigour give,, To as much beauty as cou'd live., Signed 'Mary Ann Howard, April the 26 1799.', England, 1799, embroidery & stitching, Sampler.

Sampler, Mary Ann Howard, Medium: silk on wool Technique: cross, stem and satin stitches on plain weave foundation. Counted stitches., Memorial verse with a curving floral border. Verse reads:, 'Take holy Earth:, All that my soul holds dear:, Take that best gift which Heav'n so lately gave:, To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form:, She bow'd to taste the wave, and died-does youth,, does beauty read the line?, Does sympathetic fear their breast alarm?, Speak dead MARIA: Breath a strain divine,, Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm., Bid them be chaste, be innocent like thee,, Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move,, And if so fair, from vanity as free,, As firm in friendship, and as fond in love., Tell them, tho tis an awful thing to die, (Twas ev'n to thee), yet the dread path once trod,, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high,, And bids the pure in heart behold their God., Underneath this stone doth lie,, As much virtue as cou'd die,, which when alive did vigour give,, To as much beauty as cou'd live., Signed 'Mary Ann Howard, April the 26 1799.', England, 1799, embroidery & stitching, Sampler.
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Sampler, Mary Ann Howard, Medium: silk on wool Technique: cross, stem and satin stitches on plain weave foundation. Counted stitches., Memorial verse with a curving floral border. Verse reads:, 'Take holy Earth:, All that my soul holds dear:, Take that best gift which Heav'n so lately gave:, To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form:, She bow'd to taste the wave, and died-does youth,, does beauty read the line?, Does sympathetic fear their breast alarm?, Speak dead MARIA: Breath a strain divine,, Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm., Bid them be chaste, be innocent like thee,, Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move,, And if so fair, from vanity as free,, As firm in friendship, and as fond in love., Tell them, tho tis an awful thing to die, (Twas ev'n to thee), yet the dread path once trod,, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high,, And bids the pure in heart behold their God., Underneath this stone doth lie,, As much virtue as cou'd die,, which when alive did vigour give,, To as much beauty as cou'd live., Signed 'Mary Ann Howard, April the 26 1799.', England, 1799, embroidery & stitching, Sampler
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3181 x 3900 px | 35.5 MB
Tamaño impresión:
26.9 x 33.0 cm | 10.6 x 13.0 in (300 dpi)
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ABRIL AMATEUR AMISTAD AMOR BELLEZA CASTIZO CASTO CRUZ DECHADO DIOS DIOSES EMPRESA GRACIA GRAN BRETAÑA GUSTO INGLATERRA LIBRE OLA PODER PUJA SABOR SEDA SENTIDO DEL GUSTO TALLO VANIDAD VIRTUD VIVO