Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1831
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Ellen Caufield, American
label: Student of
content: C. M. T.
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A large house with trees, flowers, birds, butterflies and a verse:
label: Description
content: This work in hand my friends may have
label: Description
content: When I am dead and in my grave
label: Description
content: And when my work each time you see
label: Description
content: With fond remembrance think on me
label: Description
content: and the inscription:
label: Description
content: Ellen Caufield (?) worked in the 12th year of her age 1831
label: Description
content: C.M.T. teacher
label: Description
content: Wheeling, Virginia
label: Description
content: With a flowering vine border on three sides.
place: label: made in
content: Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase, Textile Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1983-42-1
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 satin, cross and rococo stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 44.5 x 36.8 cm (17 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.)