- Maker
- Delacroix, Victorine
- Date made
- 1833
- Origin
- Philadelphia, PA US
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 5 alphabets: each with 26 letters. Numbers 1-10, Roman numerals to 20, plus 30, 40 and 50. A centered basket of flowers with smaller baskets on both sides. At the bottom a tree on a small hillock on both sides, birds, peacock, small dogs. Inner swirl border with a reversing arcaded carnation border up both sides and across the top.
- Inscription
- (Initials on both sides): C J D M D / (On L): Spirit Creator of mankind, / Come visit every pious mind. / And sweetly let thy grace invade / Such hearts O Lord as thoust made / (ON R): The living fountain, fire and love / The ghostly unction from above / Gods sacred finger which imparts / A seven fold grace to faithful hearts / (In a flowered cartouche with a crown at the top and held up by angels): Victorine Delacroix / AD 1833 / (In a cartouche at the center bottom): Wrought in / D.H. Mundall's / Seminary No 101 / South Fifth Street / Philadelphia //
- Length Without Frame
- 26.5"
- Width Without Frame
- 23.5"
- Historical Owner
- #1994.0109 A
- Owner
- Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
- Owner Private
- Winterthur
- Name of School
- D.H. Mundall's Seminary, Philadelphia, PA
