Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1734
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Ann Peartree, American, 1722 - 1744
label: Student of
content: Susanna Condy, American, 1686 - 1747
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Linen sampler, darkened with age, embroidered in blues, greens, yellow, white and pale pink silks. Serpent curving around apple tree with Adam and Eve at either side, surrounded by animals and flowers. Inscription at bottom reads "Ann Peartree, Her work 1734."
place: label: made in
content: Boston, Massachusetts, 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: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-157
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and metal-wrapped silk embroidery; paper and linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, herringbone, unequal herringbone, satin, stem, back, running, double running and chain stitches, couching over paper, detached loop and twist (needle lace), on plain weave foundation Label: linen, embroidered with silk in cross, herringbone, satin, stem, back, running, chain, couching, and detached looping stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 36.8 x 29.2 cm (14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)