Knowledge fills the mind with entertaining VIews, and administers to it a perpetual Se of Grat / fication. It give Ease to Solitude fills a public Station with Suital Abilities and when it is / mixed with Complacency it adds Lastre to such as are possessed of it. / (2): (On the L): From a small acorn see the oak arise / Supremely tall and towring to the skies, / Queen of the grove her stately head she rears, / Her bulk increasing with the length of years. (On the R): Now forms a warlike ship and plows the deep, / Whilst in her Womb destructive Thunders Sleep / Thus Britain boasts her wide extensive reign, / And by the expanded acorn rules the Marn. / (On the L): Adam alone in Paradise did grieve. / And thought Eden a desert without Eve / Untill God pitying his lonesome fate / (On the R): Crown'd all his wishes with a lovely Mate. / What reason then has Man to Slight to flout her / That could not live in Paradis without her. / Across the bottom: /Clarissa Field her Work in the ninth year of her age 1797 //

Maker

Field, Clarissa (age 9)

Date made

1797

Origin

England

Stitches

Cross, Eyelet, Satin

In Bolton & Co.

No

Foundation Cloth

Linen

Embroidery Thread

Silk and/or Wool

Predominent Motif

3 alphabets. Numbers 1-22. Various wide and narrow cross bands. No border visible.

Inscription

Knowledge fills the mind with entertaining VIews, and administers to it a perpetual Se of Grat / fication. It give Ease to Solitude fills a public Station with Suital Abilities and when it is / mixed with Complacency it adds Lastre to such as are possessed of it. / (2): (On the L): From a small acorn see the oak arise / Supremely tall and towring to the skies, / Queen of the grove her stately head she rears, / Her bulk increasing with the length of years. (On the R): Now forms a warlike ship and plows the deep, / Whilst in her Womb destructive Thunders Sleep / Thus Britain boasts her wide extensive reign, / And by the expanded acorn rules the Marn. / (On the L): Adam alone in Paradise did grieve. / And thought Eden a desert without Eve / Untill God pitying his lonesome fate / (On the R): Crown'd all his wishes with a lovely Mate. / What reason then has Man to Slight to flout her / That could not live in Paradis without her. / Across the bottom: /Clarissa Field her Work in the ninth year of her age 1797 //

Length Without Frame

14"

Width Without Frame

15 1/2"

Historical Owner

#2005.1.4 Gift of William H. and Myra M. Mathers

Owner

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Owner Private

Vassar College Loeb Art Center