- Maker
- Ballinger, Rebecca
- Date made
- 1830
- Origin
- Ohio US
- Stitches
- Cross, Algerian eye, Satin, Rice, Irish, Queen's Crosslet, Long-armed cross, Gobelin.
- In Bolton & Co.
- No Verse #503. 1779. Page 318.
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 3 alphabets: all missing the J, lowercase with long style S. Numbers 1-9. Saw tooth & Irish stitch cross bands. A basket and two large diamonds in the lower half. Two large trees birds perched at the top. Reversing arcaded strawberry border all 4 sides.
- Inscription
- (On the L): Rebecca Ballinger 1830 / WB LB / WP EP NU CU / WB EB / SB MB / LP *** LU / (On the R): WB CB / JS ES / In thy fair book of life divine / My, god, incribe (sic) my name / There, let it fill some humble place / Beneath the slaughter'd Lamb / Rebecca Ballinger //
- Length Without Frame
- 17"
- Width Without Frame
- 23"
- Original Frame
- Unframed
- Historical Owner
- #1989.0343.12 Gift of Elizabeth G. Cooke.
- Owner
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
- Owner Private
- Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History