Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1790
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Embroidered sampler with Adam and Eve under a heavily fruited tree, crucifixion with dripping blood, and the pious pelican pecking her breast to feed her young. Spot motifs include a camel and a basket of flowers. Cartouche containing the initials ACL Anno 1790. Alphabet bands run along the top and bottom.
place: label: made in
content: Denmark
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Marsha Carson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2022-40-28
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, linen Technique: petit point tent stitch, cross and eyelet stitches on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (object): 30.5 × 33.3 cm (12 in. × 13 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (framed): 36 × 38.3 × 3.2 cm (14 3/16 × 15 1/16 × 1 1/4 in.)