Sea Beast
date: label: date made
content: 1935
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 and crewel.
label: Description
content: This rectangular canvas work depicts a "Sea Beast." Thirty-seven kneeling sea creatures with fishlike tails are on the shore, with a three-spired pavilion with sea horse banners on each spire. There is a sea beast's head and two more sections of his serpent-like body rising from the waters. At the top upper right are the initials EBR 1935. The ground is cotton canvas. The threads are tapestry wool in shades of brown from beige to chocolate and the stitches are half cross and tent.
label: Description
content: According to a family member, “Sea Beast” is based upon a painting made by a friend of Eleanor’s who was a medium.
label: Description
content: Eleanor Butler Alexander was born on December 26, 1888, in New York City to Henry and Grace Green Alexander. She married Theodore Roosevelt II on June 20, 1910. They had four children: Grace, Theodore III, Cornelius V. S., and Quentin. She died on May 29, 1960, in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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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 Mr and Mrs. Sidney de la Rue
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13347.01
label: accession number
content: 252238
label: catalog number
content: T13347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, picture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 1/4 in x 36 in; 64.135 cm x 91.44 cm