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Catalog Level: item
Type: sampler
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Terms:
decorative arts
textiles
American art
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Titles or Names
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Text: Embroidered Sampler
Preference: preferred
Type: repository
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Creation
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Creator Description: embroidered by
Rebekah S. Munro (American, 1780-1803), at Miss Balch's
School (Providence, Rhode Island; late 18th, early 19th
centuries)
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Identity:
Munro, Rebekah S.
Role:
embroiderer
Identity:
Balch's School, Miss
Role:
school
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Creation Date:
ca. 1791
Earliest:
1786 Latest:
1796
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Creation Place/Original Location: Providence
(Rhode Island, United States)
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Measurements
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Dimensions Description: 40 x 29.9 cm
(15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches)
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Value: 40 Unit: cm Type:
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Value: 29.9 Unit: cm Type:
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Materials and Techniques
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Description: linen embroidered with
silk thread
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Material Names:
linen
thread
silk
Technique Names:
embroidering
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Inscriptions/Marks
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Transcription or Description: inscribed
in upper center: With Sheba's queen / ye american fair
/ To ad / orn your mind / bend all your care; inscribed
in lower center below: (How blest the maid) whom circling
years improve / Her GOD the object of her warmest love
/ Whose useful hours successive as they glide / The
Book the Needle and the Pen Divide / Who sees her Parents
Heart exult with joy / And the fond tear stand sparkling
in their eye / REBEKAH S. MUNRO'S WORK
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Subject Matter
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Indexing Terms:
object (utilitarian)
trees
flowers
discipline
virtue
Queen of Sheba (Bible) family
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Descriptive Note
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Text: This work is an example of one
type of design and motto that was taught at Miss Balch's
School. The emboiderer is thought to be Rebekah S. Munro,
the daughter of Captain James Munro (ca. 1748-1814)
and Rebecca Snow (ca. 1757-1817) of Providence. Rebekah
died unmarried at the age of twenty-three. It is believed
that she was not closely related to Mary Munro, another
of Miss Balch's students whose embroidery is in the
Museum's collection.
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Citations: Metropolitan Museum of Art
online
Page: accessed 17 July 2006
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Current Location
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Repository Name/Geographic Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York, United
States)
Repository Numbers:
1984.331.13
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