- Maker
- Snow, Polly (age 10)
- Date made
- 1798
- Origin
- MA US
- Stitches
- Cross, Eyelet, Satin,
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 4 alphabets: all missing the J. Numbers 1-9 and 1-7. Figure of a girl at bottom L, birds, various floral baskets, an animal, baskets of flowers, a tree with birds on the R. Reversing arcaded trefoil border up both sides and across the top with an outer saw tooth border all four sides.
- Inscription
- On line in center): Polly Snow Born In December the 2 day of 1788 / This wrought / in the Year / 1798 (In saw tooth cartouche just below): Let morals Piety / and Learning Join / To mend the heart the mind / to refine ....... Power / And Purity and his with ????? / Allure the feet to wisdoms / bower //
- Length Without Frame
- 15 3/8"
- Length With Frame
- 17 1/2"
- Width Without Frame
- 12 1/2"
- Wdith With Frame
- 14 3/4"
- Historical Owner
- #B.98.16 Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Marrow (See America's Treasures at Bayou Bend: Celebrating Fifty Years by Michael K. Brown).
- Owner
- Museum of Fine Arts, Bayou Bend, Houston, TX
- Owner Private
- Museum of Fine Arts, Bayou Bend