Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1832
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Catalina de Aranaga
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small sampler with central square filled with embroidered objects i.e. rider on horseback, man walking a dog, floral forms with birds, man picking fruit, two men fishing, a fountain, small building, and a heart surrounded by a band of writing: "LO. HIZO. CATALINA. DE. ARANAGA. SIENDO DICIPOLA. DE. LA. SA MAESTRA DA MARIA. DE ACHOTEQUI. EN LA EDA DE 10 ANOS ANO DE 1832."
label: Description
content: Translation: "Made by Catalina de Aranaga under the instruction of her teacher Senora Maria de Achotequi. Aged 10 years. In the Year of 1832."
label: Description
content: Surrounded by wide borders - two of which are the same but the colors are reversed. All embroidered in red and blue on white background. Except for very narrow borders and some writing, all executed in cross stitch.
place: label: made in
content: Spain
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Marian Hague
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1971-50-165
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered using cross, foursided, and running stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 34 x 31 cm (13 3/8 x 12 3/16 in.)