- Maker
- Clendening, Ruth Hannah (?)
- Date made
- ca. 1840
- Origin
- Loudoun County, VA US
- Stitches
- Cross, Crosslet, Eyelet, Rice, Herringbone, Queen, Roumanian
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 5 alphabets: #1 26 letters, J is backwards, #2 uppercase ends with T, #3 uppercase ends with V, #4 uppercase script missing J end with W, #5 lowercase has long style S and ends with X. Simple stitched lines. Small motifs. At the center bottom a white two story house with three geometric trees on the L and two on the R. A small flower motif above the roof. At the bottom R a stitched section around a small one story white house. Reversing arcaded strawberry and carnation border up both sides and across the top. Unfinished section at the bottom
- Inscription
- Absent or dead still let a friend be dear, / A sigh (the absent claim, the dead a tear) (Note: a couplet by Alexander Pope in 1721) //
- Length Without Frame
- 16 3/4"
- Width Without Frame
- 17"
- Historical Owner
- LM 1995.002 Gift of W. Emory Plaster
- Owner
- Loudoun Museum, Leesburg, VA
- Owner Private
- Loudoun Museum