Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1729
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary Mitchell
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Bands of pattern in polychrome. In middle two alphabets and numbers. At bottom verse, "This work in hand my friends may have when I am dead and laid in grave Mary Mitchel made this sampler in the fifteenth year of my age in the year 1729."
place: label: made in
content: England, possibly Scotland
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: 1981-28-41
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, linen, and cotton embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in back, long aremed cross, cross, eyelet, satin stitches and cutwork with needlemade fillings on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 45.7 x 22.8cm (18 x 9in.)