Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1819
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary Fitz, (American, born 1807)
label: Student at
content: Mrs. Buchanan's School, (Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, USA)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Central scene of two women, one standing, and one seated on a bench beneath a grape arbor. Border of sixteen squares containing birds, flowering sprays, baskets of flowers, boys at play, a house, and, at the bottom center, the inscription. With a border of green silk ribbon.
place: label: made in
content: Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, USA
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: 1941-69-26
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and human hair embroidery, cotton foundation, silk ribbon Technique: embroidered in cross, half cross, satin, stem, rococo, feather and buttonhole stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 58.5 x 60.5 cm (23 1/16 x 23 13/16 in.)