Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1798
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Lydia Stocker, American, 1785 - 1841
notes: label: Description
content: The small square field has an alphabet in four bands at the top and a landscape at the bottom with a house, tree, man and woman, dog, and deer. The deep border has an urn of flowers in each corner and flowers, butterflies and birds between. The inscription reads:
label: Description
content: Lydia Stocker Age 13 1798
label: Description
content: Happy is the Man that hath a friend
label: Description
content: Form'd by the God of Nature
label: Description
content: Well may he feel and recommend
label: Description
content: Friendship to his creator
label: Description
content: Embroidery covers the entire surface.
place: label: made in
content: Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
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 Emily Coe Stowell from the Coe Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1970-28-3
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, stem, satin, running and overcasting stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 42.2 x 43.2 cm (16 5/8 x 17 in.)