- Maker
- Foster, Hannah (age 12)
- Date made
- 1817
- Origin
- MA US
- Stitches
- Cross, Satin, Stem
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Predominent Motif
- 3 alphabets: uppercase script missing J, one ampersand. Numbers 1-8 and 1-11. Simple stitched lines and small cross bands. Large basket of flowers at center bottom with motifs of small trees each side on a green rolling lawn. All done in an arcade with saw tooth stitches at the top. At L & R sides an urn with flowers that go up both sides and meet at the center top.
- Inscription
- (On L): Youths bloom / ? ? ? ? ? ? And like a flower fades away / / (On R): Blessed are / The dead / Which die in / The Lord / Hannah Foster wrought this in the / 12th year of her age //
- Length Without Frame
- 43.5cm
- Width Without Frame
- 38.5cm
- Original Frame
- Unframed
- Historical Owner
- #1913.94 Gift of Miss Anna Stoodley
- Owner
- North Andover Historical Society, North Andover, MA
- Owner Private
- North Andover Historical Society
