Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1786
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Polly Turner, American, b. 1775
label: Student at
content: Mary Balch School
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: This sampler, made at the Polly Balch School in Rhode Island, shows an arched framing device enclosing a scene with a brick building and several figures of fashionably dressed men and women. Urns of flowers form a floral border on three sides. At the top a short verse:
label: Description
content: Honor and renown will the ingenious crown
label: Description
content: Under the arch, the inscription: Wrought August 12 1786 at Providence
label: Description
content: and at the bottom:
label: Description
content: Polly Putney born Feb 15 1775 at Warren
label: Description
content: Silk embroidery on linen foundation.
place: label: made in
content: Providence, Rhode Island, 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 Emily Coe Stowell from the Coe Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1970-28-10
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, linen, metal-wrapped silk, hair, metal strips Technique: embroidered using cross, tent stem, satin, and rococo (queen) stitches on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 37.5 x 28.6 cm (14 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)