Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1703
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Elizabeth Thurston, English
label: School of
content: Judith Hayle
notes: label: Description
content: Long vertical sampler worked in colored silks on a linen ground. The upper register has stylized floral vines. In the center, "Elizabeth Thurston
label: Description
content: Look well to what you take in hand for larning is better then house or land When land is gone and money is spent then larning is most excellent.
label: Description
content: Aged 15 August the 9 1703". In the lower register are two columns holding flower urns with a heart and crown in between, two zebras, and the initials JH and ET.
place: label: made in
content: Ipswich, Suffolk County, 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 Myra M. and William H. Mathers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2002-26-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: Frame H x W: 58.4 x 17.8 cm (23 x 7 in.)