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Joanna Potter Wardel

Sampler of Mount Tabor Chapel,

Maker

  • Joanna Potter Wardel

Title

Sampler of Mount Tabor Chapel

Medium

linen, wool

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Linen ground with wool embroidery

Techniques

  • Linen ground with wool embroidery

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription centered at top: "I love her gates; I love the road;/The church adorn'd with grace,/Stands like a Palace built for God./To show his milder face./My soul shall Pray for Zion still./While Life or breath remains:/There my best friends my kindred dWell/There God my saViour reigns." Centered at middle: "HoW amiable/are the tabernacles./O Lord of hosts,/PSALM LXXXIV Verse 1*" Beneath: "Mount Tabor Chapel S[?}ll" Center bottom: "Joanna Potter Wardle Her Work in 1935 A Present for WMW"

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Gift of Daphne Peabody Murray

Object Number

82.289.79

Sampler of Mount Tabor Chapel

Inscription centered at top: "I love her gates; I love the road;/The church adorn'd with grace,/Stands like a Palace built for God./To show his milder face./My soul shall Pray for Zion still./While Life or breath remains:/There my best friends my kindred dWell/There God my saViour reigns." Centered at middle: "HoW amiable/are the tabernacles./O Lord of hosts,/PSALM LXXXIV Verse 1*" Beneath: "Mount Tabor Chapel S[?}ll" Center bottom: "Joanna Potter Wardle Her Work in 1935 A Present for WMW"

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