Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1738
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Sarah Troup, English
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Bands of alphabets, crowns, reversing pattern, two figures with distaffs, and verse:
label: Description
content: Let none despise the criss-cross row
label: Description
content: Did we but know our nearness to the grave
label: Description
content: What thoughts and cogitations should we have
label: Description
content: With the inscription:
label: Description
content: Sarah Troup her work begun August the 21, 1738 in the 9 year of her age
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1975-86-8
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, satin, eye and rococo stitches on plain weave foundation; counted stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 30.5 x 23.5 cm (12 x 9 1/4 in.)