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Jane Singleton

Remember Well and Bear in Mind

1799

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Jane Singleton

Remember Well and Bear in Mind

1799

Physical Qualities Linen ground, silk embroidery threads, 21 3/8 x 17 1/8 x 1 3/8 in. (54.3 x 43.5 x 3.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gloria B. and Herbert M. Katzenberg Collection
Object Number 2015.134
A rectangular sampler with both poems and numerous small illustrations or motifs. At the top is a poem beginning, "Remember well and bear in mind/ A faithful friend is hard to find". Another poem at the center left begins, "Save me O Lord/ from foolish pride," and a third at the center right begins, "Teach me to feel/ another's woe." The last two stanzas are from Alexander Pope's Universal Prayer. Between the top poem and those in the center are many motifs, including a 3 bay, two and a half-story manor house with two chimneys, an out building, an oval lawn, a windmill, a man in a top hat carrying a cane, a dog, a peacock, deer, other dogs or animals as well as several floral designs. Between the two lower religious poems/texts is a Tree of Life motif, and below this birds and floral pots and a cartouche for the signature. The signature is surrounded by a small floral oval. A narrow, squared off strawberry border surrounds the whole sampler. This piece is framed in what appears to be an old carved wood frame that may be original to the work.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Estate of Gloria Katzenberg, Baltimore

Inscribed: Inscribed with three paragraphs or stanzas of poetry: Remember well and bear in mind/ A Faithfull friend is hard to find/ But when you find one just and true/ Never change to told one for a new/ Save me O Lord from/ Foolish pride/ Or impious discontent/ At aught thy/ Wisdom has deny>ed/ Or aught the goodness lent/ Teach me to feel/ Another's woe/ and hide the faults I see/ The mercy I to Others shew That mercy shew to me Jane Singleton/Aged 12 years"

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