Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1815
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Sophia Emerson, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A wide border of naturalistic flowers enclosing two sets of alphabets, a verse, a cartouche with an inscription, and a scene of a woman seated under trees.
label: Description
content: The verse reads:
label: Description
content: Friendship's a name to few confined
label: Description
content: the offering of a noble mind
label: Description
content: a generous warmth which fills the breast
label: Description
content: and better felt than e'er expres
place: label: made in
content: Pennsylvania, USA
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: Bequest of Rosalie Coe, from the collection inherited from her mother, Eva Johnston Coe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1974-42-22
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery and paint on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, satin, running, chain, knot, and stem stitches on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 67.3 x 45.7 cm (26 1/2 x 18 in.)