Trees and Texts



Trees and Texts

Summary

Silk cross stitch in colours on cream linen, in design of plants in pots, angels and lion and key pattern border at base below inscriptions, poem: 'The Loss of Time is Much / The Loss of Truth is More / The Loss of Jesus Christ is such as no man can restore'. 'Ann Tym her work aged 74 years of our Lord 1858 / Blessed is the dead which die in the Lord R.T.' Horsfall Museum collection. Presented by Mrs Hewhill (transferred to Platt Hall, 1953)


Object Name

Trees and Texts

Date Created

1858

Dimensions

Size: 49.5cm x 48.9cm

accession number

1918.1116

Place of creation

Europe

Medium

Credit

Transferred from the Horsfall Museum Collection, 1918

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