Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1789
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Abigail Adams, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The field has scattered motifs including house, a peacock, urns of flowers, birds, and Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge. Surrounded on three sides with a geometric border and on all four with a strawberry vine border. With the date 1789 at the top and the inscription Abigail Adams her work New York at the bottom.
place: label: made in
content: New York, 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: 1941-69-243
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 31 x 42cm (12 3/16 x 16 9/16in.)