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Sampler
Elizabeth Regan (British)
British
1829
Object Place: Britain
Medium/Technique
Wool plain weave embroidered with silk
Dimensions
52 x 30 cm (20 1/2 x 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Miss Elizabeth M. Regan
Accession Number45.710
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionFramed long narrow wool sampler embroidered with silk. Verse at the top: "Jesus the only thought of thee with sweetness fills my breast but sweeter far it is to see and on thy beauty feast. No sound no harmony so can art or music frame no thoughts can reach no words can say. The sweets of thy name". Below verse a country house with sheep is embroidered in cross stitch. Signed at bottom, "Elizabeth Regans work finished in the year 1829".
ProvenanceBequest of Miss Elizabeth M. Regan to MFA, 1945