Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1738–39
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Mary Mumford
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two alphabets, curving floral band and text: "Fear God and keep his laws and commandments/ Fame, honours and renown/ will the ingenious crown." Signed "Mary Mumford her sampler aged 8 years and 8 months Jan the 2517389."
place: label: made in
content: England
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: Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1976-100-42
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk on linen Technique: embroidered in cross, satin and eye stitches on plain weave foundation. Counted stitches.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 24.5 x 24 cm (9 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)