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Metadata
Accession # |
2007.24.1 |
Item Name |
Embroidery Needlework Sampler |
Description |
An unframed linen sampler depicting a green and red rose flower at the top middle; the flower motif is done in Berlin wool work. Below the floral design is a long written passage embroidered in black and brown cross-stitching that compares the breaking of a rose stem with that of the human heart. Signed in cross-stitch at the bottom: "Margaret Groves March 1864." A wide border of small red flowers and green leaves frames the sampler. The motto is framed within a single line of brown cross-stitch and reads: "The rose had been washd just / washd in a shower which Mary to / Anna conveyd. The plentiful moisture encumberd the flower and weighd / down its beautiful head. / The cup was all filld and the leaves / were all wet. and it seemd to a / fanciful view. to weep for the buds / it had left with regret on the flourishi / ng bush where it grew. I hastily seizd / it unfit as it was for a nosegay so / dripping and drownd and swinging it / rudely too rudely alas I snapped it it / fell to the ground. And such I exclaimed / is the pitiless part some act by the delic / ate mind regardless of wringing and / breaking a heart already to sorrow / resigned. This elegant rose had I / shaken it less might have bloomed with / its owner awhile and the tear that is / wiped with a little address may be / followed perhaps by a smile." |
Date |
1864 EQUALS |
Provenance |
The sampler was given to the donor about 1980 by Art and Patricia Kennedy. One member of the Kennedy family was married to a Groves. Margaret Groves (1854-1935) was a younger sister of Dr. Abraham Groves. She married Thomas Nesbitt (1850-1890) of Peel Township. For more information on the Groves family please refer to the genealogy file in the Archives. |
Person \ Organization |
Groves, Margaret |
Place |
West Garafraxa Twp. |
Year Range from |
1864 |
Year Range to |
1864 |