Hiller, Elizabeth (age 12)

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Maker
Hiller, Elizabeth (age 12)
Date made
1800
Origin
Nantucket, MA US
Stitches
Cross, Satin, Queen.
In Bolton & Co.
No
Foundation Cloth
Linen
Embroidery Thread
Silk
Predominent Motif
1 alphabet: uppercase script with ampersand followed by additional letters. An acrostic sampler: the first letter of each line is a letter of the alphabet. This one goes from A to M minus the J. Various plants in urns, strawberry plants, small white sheep and small black collared dogs, birds. All done in an saw tooth stitched rectangle. Reversing arcaded strawberry and tulip border all four sides. See # 5078, #5082 and #5086 for a nearly identical sampler done at the same Nantucket school.
Inscription
All mortal men that live must surely die / But how or when is hid from human eye / Consider then thy few uncertain days / Delay no longer to amend thy ways / Engage thy heart to serve the Iord in Iove / For all his ways the ways of comfort prove / Grant to thyself no time for vain delight / Hate all thats wrong and love to do the right / In all thou ever dost act gods fear / Keep still the thoughts of death and Judgment near / Learn to avoide what thou beleaves is sin / Mind what reProves or Iustifies with in / (At center bottom): 1800 / Elizabeth / Hiller is my nam^e / at 12 years / old I mark'd the / Same //
Length Without Frame
16 1/8"
Width Without Frame
12 1/8"
Historical Owner
#1968.0010.003 Gift of Miss Grace I. Bolles
Owner
Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA
Owner Private
Nantucket Historical Association
Name of School
Nantucket School, Nantucket, MA