- Maker
- Taylor, Jane Eliza (age 9)
- Date made
- 1813
- Origin
- Charleston, SC US
- Stitches
- Cross, Eyelet
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 2 alphabets: one with double letters of one upper and one lowercase. Various cross bands. At the bottom a three story brick house with two chimneys. Two trees on each side with a large dog on the R and a smaller dog on the L. Arcaded strawberry border all four sides.
- Inscription
- The Fair Lady's Wish / If it be true celestial Powers that you have form'd / Me fair, and yet in all my vainest hours my mind has / Been my care, then in return ( )g this grace, as you / Was ever kind. what envious ( )ne takes from my / Face. bestow upon my mind. / Upon Life / Lord what is life tis like a flower that blossom and / Is gone we see it flourish for an hour with all beauty / On but death comes like a wintry day and ( ) the / Pretty flower away / (Hea)venly ( )e / Chist,s arms do s( ) and ope( ) recive all wary / Prodigals hat sin do leave for them he left his fathers / Blest abode made son of man to make man son of / God to cure their wounds he lifes elixir bled and died / A death to raise them from the dead / Jane Eliza Taylor her / Sampler Aged 9 Years
- Length Without Frame
- 16"
- Width Without Frame
- 11 2/3"
- Original Frame
- Unframed
- Historical Owner
- #HT 0525 Donated by Joan Baker Williman 1925
- Owner
- The Charleston Museum, Charleston, SC
- Owner Private
- The Charleston Museum
