- Maker
- Symonds, Lucy (age 11)
- Date made
- 1796
- Origin
- Boxford, MA US
- Stitches
- Cross, Satin, Surface satin, Chain.
- In Bolton & Co.
- Yes ......... Page 78. Verses #653.Page 337. Verse #650.Page 337. Verse 141. Page 273. All in 1796.
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- At the bottom: 5 hills, on the center one a large vase of flowers, birds, two trees on the L and R and baskets on the remaining two from which a vine covered with assorted flowers springs and continues as a border up both sides and across the top.
- Inscription
- (In a sawtooth stitched central square): Sweetly blooms the rose of may / Glitt'ring with the tears of morn / So insideous smiles betray / While they hide the treach'rous thorn / Thrice blest is he who throug lif's thorny road / Can pass with pleasure and without a sigh / Who views unmov'd this frailty of abode / Who lives in peace, and never fears to die / Who craves but little, and but little wants / Whose aims are noble, and his vices few. / These pollish'd arts have humaniz'd mankind / Soften'd the rude and calm'd the boistrious mind. / Lucy Symonds aged eleven years / Boxford August ye 13 1796 //
- Length Without Frame
- 62.2cm
- Width Without Frame
- 54.6cm
- Original Frame
- Unframed
- Historical Owner
- #T.30-1923 Owned by Mrs. Henry E. Coe. Donated by Mrs. Antrobus
- Owner
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
- Owner Private
- Victoria and Albert Museum
