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30-3/8 x 8-1/4 in.
Mark DescriptionInscribed at top: Sweet children wisdom you invites to hearken tho hur voice / Shee offers to your race delights most worthy of your choice Inscribed at bottom: Eternall blessings in hur wayes you shall be sure to find / Oh therefore in your youthful dayes your great creator mind
Accession NumberRoger G. Wolcott Fund
Copyright(Cora Ginsberg, Tarrytown, New York); purchased by Indianapolis Museum of Art (1985)
The inscription on the top reads:
Sweet children wisdom you invites to hearken tho hur voice/Shee offers to your race delights most worthy of your choice/Eternall blessings in hur wayes you shall be sure to find/Oh therefore in your youthful dayes your great creator mind
The inscription on the bottom reads:
Young Isaac Who Lift Up Their Eyes And Mediate In Fields/Young Jacobs Who The Blessings Prizes This Woe But Seldom Yields/Few Samueles Leaving Their Playes Two Temple Work Resignd/Few Do As These in Youthful Dayes Their Great Creator Mind
Mary Wilson 1695
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