The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 28, 2023

Sampler

1600 – 1630

England, 17th century

Embroidery: silk on linen tabby ground

Overall: 24.1 x 50.8 cm (9 1/2 x 20 in.)

The Mary Pack McNairy Collection 1942.508

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

alphabet through W; "Alse Turnor"; "Magdalen + Kuynet"; "Madgalen Forde"; and the verse: "No shade of envie can obscure the light of vertue shining pure."`

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.508