- 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