Attack Scene
name: label: maker
content: Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler Alexander
notes: label: Description
content: In the 20th century, women’s hobbies included embroidery techniques such as needlepoint, crewel, and silk embroidery.
label: Description
content: This unfinished companion piece to "The Legend of Czar Saltan," still on its frame made by Cornelius V. S. Roosevelt. It portrays the "attack scene" from the legend. (see Eleanor Roosevelt’s embroidery of the legend.) The golden cockerel has attacked the Czar, knocked his crown off his head and is pecking his head. The cockerel's embroidery is finished, the Czar's head is partially embroidered, with hair, eye and blood drops finished. The remainder of the picture is drawn on the fabric. The picture consists of a circle which included the Czar's head, part of the crown and the cockerel. The ground is linen and the threads are silk and metallic. The stitches are laid and couched, outline, stem, split.
label: Description
content: Eleanor Butler Alexander was born on December 26, 1888, to Henry and Grace Green Alexander in New York city. She married Theodore Roosevelt II (1887-1944) on 20 June 1910, and they had four children: Grace, Theodore III, Cornelius V. S. and Quentin. She died on May 29, 1960, at Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Oyster Bay
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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: Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0656.04A
label: accession number
content: 1990.0656
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0656.04A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: unfinished embroidered picture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (thread material)
label: Physical Description
content: metallic (thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 in x 31 in; 73.66 cm x 78.74 cm