Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1823
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Louisa Nenninger, American, b. 1815
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Square sampler of natural-colored linen embroidered with blue, green, yellow, red, and white silks. Within a strawberry vine border, an inscription, Louisa Nenninger Baltimore cess Juin 1823, is followed by rows of alphabets, trees, houses and windmills, a large house with a fence, and two texts in French:
label: Description
content: Louis Seize connoit les pertes qu'on deplore (Louis XVI knew deplorable losses)
label: Description
content: Deja de nos beaux jours on voit briller l'aurore (Already we see the dawn of our beautiful days)
place: label: made in
content: Baltimore, Maryland, 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 Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-78
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: 45.1 x 45.1 cm (17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.)