Sampler
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1760
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Ann Honilon?
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Square embroidered sampler with a woman and a spotted dog, a cow, and a peacock surrounded by birds and insects, flanked by a crowned thistle and a crowned rose. Stylized grapevine border. In a cartouche at the top, a verse:
label: Description
content: Immortal made what should we mind
label: Description
content: so much as Immortalitie
label: Description
content: of beings for a Heaven designed
label: Description
content: what but a Heaven the care should be
place: label: made in
content: England
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 Mrs. Henry E. Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-69-48
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, tent, satin, stem, plush and couching stitches on plain weave Label: wool embroidered with silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 32.1 x 33 cm (12 5/8 x 13 in.)