Family register, Eliza Wheelock, American, Medium: linen, wool. Technique: embroidered in satin, stem, chain, and other stitches, Embroidered in black, a record of the family of Silas Wheelock (1769-1817) and Hannah Harrington (1782-?), with columns for the births, marriages and deaths of their children, in a framework of columns surmounted by urns. Weeping willows on either side of the inscription:, EW in Memory of a Parent, At the bottom, a verse:, As time and tide do not abide, So we from time must pass, Made of the dust return we must, And perish like the grass, USA, 1817, embroidery

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