- Maker
- Wheeler, Catharine Mary
- Date made
- 1825
- Origin
- NJ or PA (?) US
- Stitches
- Chain, Cross, Eyelet (round), fly, knots (fuzzy), lazy daisy, Outline, Queen, queen (half), Satin (random and encroaching), Spot stitches (random), Straight
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- In the top center a large white bird with arrows in its talons and leaves in its beak flies over a swag of flowers. A small wooded scene with a tree, deer and birds on both side. In the bottom half a two-story house with two chimneys and 5 shuttered windows flanked by trees, birds, and baskets of flowers. The house sits on a lawn depicting a pastoral scene of roosters, hens, chicks, sheep, flowers, and two human figures with faces detailed in ink. An arcaded border of flowers up both sides and across the top.
- Inscription
- See youth and beauty bloom one transient hour / But age leaves not one flat[t]ering trace behind / But there is one charm over which time has no Poser / The beauty of a cultivated mind/ Haste then dear youth and make this charm thine own / See meek religion points you out the way / Give her thy hand and she will lead thee on / Where virtue blooms in eternal day. (At the bottom): Wrought by Catherine Mary Wheeler in the 13th years of her age. Jane Keys Instructress of Brunswick School, 1825 //
- Length Without Frame
- 23 3/4"
- Length With Frame
- 25 1/4"
- Width Without Frame
- 26"
- Wdith With Frame
- 27 3/4"
- Historical Owner
- #1958.608.1 Museum purchase
- Owner
- Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA
- Owner Private
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Name of School
- Brunswick School NJ or PA (?)