Stone, Sarah Ann

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Maker
Stone, Sarah Ann
Date made
1841
Origin
US
Stitches
Cross, Eyelet
In Bolton & Co.
No Verse #224. 1793. Page 283.
Foundation Cloth
Linen
Predominent Motif
On each side of the verse is a geometric style tree with a perched bird at the top. In the lower panel two baskets of flowers, two facing birds and one strawberry plant, below a two story house with two chimneys, a geometric style tree and a leafy tree on each side. At the bottom on each side three trees with three flying birds above. A reversing arcaded inner and outer border of small flowers with an inner arcaded strawberry border on all four sides.
Inscription
On Death. / Death at a distance we but slightly fear, / He brings his terrors as he draws more near, / Through poverty, pain, slav'ry, we drudge on, / The worst of beings better please than none, / No price too dear to purchace life and breath, / the heaviest burden's easier borne than death. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and / to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgement to be punished. 2. Peter. 2,9. (At the bottom): Sarah Ann Stone / Aged 8 years 1`841 //
Length Without Frame
16 1/2"
Width Without Frame
13 1/2"
Original Frame
Unframed
Historical Owner
#2:1935 Museum purchase
Owner
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Owner Private
Saint Louis Art Museum