How Blest The Maid, Whom Circling Years / Improve, Her God The Object Of Her / Warmest Love. Whose Useful Hours / Successive As They Glide. / The Book The / Needle And The Pen Divide. / Priscilla T. Glover Aged 13 Anno Domini / 1798

Maker

Glover, Priscilla T. (age 13)

Date made

1799

Origin

Salem, MA US

In Bolton & Co.

No

Foundation Cloth

Linsey-woolsey

Embroidery Thread

Silk

Predominent Motif

2 alphabets. Numbers 1-9. All done in a center cartouche done in saw tooth border with stylized strawberries across bottom. Includes verses and some small motifs. Large basket of flowers at center top, a tree, birds and animals at bottom. Floral vine border on both sides.

Inscription

How Blest The Maid, Whom Circling Years / Improve, Her God The Object Of Her / Warmest Love. Whose Useful Hours / Successive As They Glide. / The Book The / Needle And The Pen Divide. / Priscilla T. Glover Aged 13 Anno Domini / 1798

Length Without Frame

18 1/4"

Width Without Frame

15"

Original Frame

Unframed

Historical Owner

#1984.331.1 Gift of Barbara Schiff Sinauer

Owner

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Owner Private

Metropolitan Museum of Art