- Maker
- Wallace, Mary
- Date made
- 1796
- Origin
- US
- Stitches
- Cross, Chain, Knot, Satin, Boullion, Fishbone
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Wool
- Predominent Motif
- A quote of Benjamin Franklin's done in an oval with various flowers, crowns, tree, plants, strawberries. Meandering flower border around all.
- Inscription
- ON / PROCRASTINATION / What can be done With care perform to day / Dangers unthought of will attend delay / Our distant prospects all precarious are / Our fortune is as fickle as she is fair / (From How to get riches by Benjamin Franklin). We should make choice of our friends with / deliberation have an esteem for them all / but make a difference between them in re / gard to their merits / (In a rectangular cartouche near the bottom): Mary M. Wallace / 1796 //
- Length Without Frame
- 12"
- Width Without Frame
- 15 1/4"
- Historical Owner
- #1965.748 Gift of Agnes Lawson Fenerty
- Owner
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Owner Private
- Art Institute of Chicago
