75370.json

{
  "display_date": "1737", 
  "credit_line": "Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe", 
  "date_end": "1737", 
  "period": "", 
  "dynasty": "", 
  "culture": "", 
  "id": "75370", 
  "style": "", 
  "date_begin": "1737", 
  "dimensions": "H x W: 42 x 40.5 cm (16 9/16 x 15 15/16 in. )", 
  "copyright": "", 
  "title": "Sampler", 
  "provenance": "ex. coll. Mrs. Henry E. Coe (Eva Johnston Coe)", 
  "credit_line_repro": "", 
  "invno": "1941-69-6                                 ", 
  "movement": "Research in progress", 
  "medium": "Medium: silk and linen embroidery on linen foundation\r\nTechnique: embroidered in two-sided cross, stem, buttonhole, satin, and long-armed cross stitches on plain weave foundation", 
  "media_id": "51724", 
  "description": "The field contains an alphabet, several scenes and scattered figures, including The Three Fates, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Expulsion, a lady and gentleman in contemporary costume, a hunter, sheep and birds, a verse in two columns, and signature, all within a stylized floral border. \r\nThe verse reads: \r\nLet none despise the criss cross row\r\n\r\nHow soon poor Adam was they freedome lost\r\nForfeit to death ere thou hadst time to boast\r\nBefore thy Triumph was thy Glory done\r\nBetwixt a Rising and a Setting sun\r\nHow soon that ends that should have ended never\r\nThine eyes ner slept until they slept forever\r\n\r\nMargaret Grant her work begun April the 18 1737 in the 9th year of her age\r\n", 
  "classification_id": "249", 
  "restrictions": "", 
  "school": "", 
  "name": "Sampler", 
  "region": "", 
  "caption": "", 
  "department_id": "5"
}