Sampler
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Isabella Grant
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within a curving floral border a text:
label: Description
content: "The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea all which it inherit shall dissolve, And like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind. From Shakespeare. Isabella Grant Aged 12"
label: Description
content: With three floral motifs and a large building with peacocks on the terrace and trees at each side. The building is said to be Inverary Castle, the seat of the Duke of Argyle. Isabella Grant was the daughter of a farmer on the estate.
place: label: made in
content: Scotland
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Rosalie Coe, from the collection inherited from her mother, Eva Johnston Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1974-42-9
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: counted and uncounted stitches; cross, satin, back and couching stitches on plain weave foundation, with velvet appliqué
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 41.3 x 44.5 cm (16 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.)