Plenty
date: label: date made
content: 1802
name: label: maker
content: Baxter, Sally
notes: label: Description
content: After a young lady learned to embroider a sampler, she might attend a female academy to make a silk embroidered picture. This was a more challenging technique that became popular in the early 1800s. Subjects included classical, biblical, and historical scenes, as well as mourning pictures.
label: Description
content: This rectangular piece features an oval picture entitled, "Plenty." A female figure, dressed in a Federal period gown, carries an upright cornucopia filled with flowers, cradled in her left arm and hand. Her right hand displays a bouquet of flowers. A reverse-painted black glass mat displays the word "Plenty” in a scroll at the bottom. In another scroll are the words "Done by Sally Baxter, Jan 1, 1802." The picture is worked on an ivory silk satin ground fabric with silk thread. The stitches used are encroaching satin, straight, French knots, laid, back, and split.
label: Description
content: A cornucopia is defined as a horn of plenty and thus the title “Plenty.”
label: Description
content: Sally Baxter was born March 26, 1789, to Taylor and Sarah Crowell Baxter of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. She married Obadiah Abbey on February 27, 1808. He died in 1822 and she died on February 5, 1872.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Yarmouth
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Embroidered Pictures
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Elsie Quinby
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E392913
label: catalog number
content: E392913
label: accession number
content: 214358
objectType: label: Object Name
content: silk picture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 10 in; 48.26 cm x 25.4 cm