Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1827
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Susan Cuming, English
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Eagle, band of trees, verse, "Have not Eve and Adam taught us/ their sad profit to compute/ To what dismal state they brought us/ when they stole forbidden fruit." All within a curving floral border.
place: label: made in
content: North Bovey, Devon, England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-73
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: embroidered in cross, satin, chain, and running stitches on a plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 43.8 x 31.8 cm (17 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.)