- Maker
- Fernald, Betsy
- Date made
- 1804
- Origin
- Eliot, ME US
- Stitches
- Cross, Eyelet,
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen (?)
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk (?)
- Predominent Motif
- 4 alphabets: uppercase script missing the J. Numbers 1-6. Simple stitched lines. At center bottom a basket with handles, two birds, a small tree and flower motif. Scroll border all four sides.
- Inscription
- Virtue / Virtues the Chiefest Beauty of the Mind / The Noblest Ornament Of Human Kind Virt / u is Our Safeuard and Our guiding star / That Stirs Up Reason When Our Senses err / B E T S Y F E R N A L D / WORKED THIS IN JULY / IN THE 12 YEAR OF HER / AGE 1804 //
- Owner
- Maine State Museum, Augusta, ME
- Owner Private
- Maine State Museum