Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1750
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Elisabeth Pecker, (American, born 1733)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Several bands of alphabets separated by small geometric cross borders, followed by an inscription:
label: Description
content: Elisabeth pecker is my name and with my needle I wroght the same 1750
label: Description
content: Elisabeth Pecker Born July 31 in the year of our Lord 1733
label: Description
content: The lower half has a scene with fruit trees, birds, animals, and a female figure. With a strawberry vine border on the two vertical edges.
place: label: made in
content: Haverhill, Massachusetts Bay, 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: 1970-28-15
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metal-wrapped silk, and hair embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in stem, satin, surface satin, cross, running, eyelet and couched stitches with appliqué on plain weave foundation .
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 51 x 40 cm (20 1/16 x 15 3/4 in.)