Mourning sampler
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Embroidered picture, nearly square in format, depicting a mourning female figure leaning on a tomb surmounted by an urn under the shade of a weeping willow. The tomb bears the inscription:
label: Description
content: Sacred to the memory of Dr. Robt Rogerson. obt. April 1st 1806, AE 49 y's. Lucy Rogerson. obt. March 4th, 1807, AE 39. Danl. H. Rogerson. obt., March 25th, 1808, AE 14. Lucy H. Rogerson. obt. 1803, AE 11 months.
label: Description
content: Embroidered in tan silk with toned watercolor washes. Trial sketch of head on left margin and trial letters in lower right and bottom margins.
place: label: made in
content: England
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: Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1974-100-30
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Mourning sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered and painted on plain weave Label: silk, painted and embroidered with silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 41 x 39.5 cm (16 1/8 x 15 9/16 in.)