- Maker
- Allen, Caroline (age 11)
- Date made
- 1823
- Origin
- US
- Stitches
- Satin, Running, Cross, Detached Chain, Four-sided
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 6 alphabets. Numbers 1-19. Various narrow and wide cross bands. At bottom L a house with a fenced yard, three tall and one small tree. On the R a basket filled with flowers, small plant motifs and a small blue bird. Border all four sides.
- Inscription
- Wrought by Miss Caroline Allen born June the 12 1812 Aged 11 years November the 2 1823 / (On L): Look on yon flower whose lovely hue / Attracts the Passing travellers eye / before it gemmed with radiant dew / And trembling at a zephyrs sigh / Mark how its fragrance scents the air / And to its bosom woos the breeze / Or rather courts the beautious fair / Too sure the beauteous fair to Please / (On R): Behold again by some rude hand / Tis severed from its Parent stem / Its leaves are withering on the sand / Its stalk lies dead and sear by them / O then be wise ye beauties bright / By erudition unrefined / And to your out ward charms unite / the beauties of a culture mind //
- Length Without Frame
- 17 1/16"
- Width Without Frame
- 17 1/16"
- Historical Owner
- #51.1947 Gift of Misses Mildred and Margaret Allen 1951
- Owner
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Owner Private
- Museum of Fine Arts
