Samplers & samplermakers
Subtitle: an American schoolgirl art, 1700-1850
By: Mary Jaene Edmonds.
Contributors: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Publisher: Rizzoli; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York; [Los Angeles]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Samplers -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; Samplers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Other titles: Samplers and samplermakers.
Description: "American classrooms have gone largely unrecorded, these astonishing embroideries which are usually signed, dated, and even sometimes inscribed with the names of the towns in which they were worked and the names of the embroiderers' teachers serve as historic documents, attesting to the existence of colonial education for women. There is a story behind each of the nearly eighty samplers illustrated in this book"--Insleaves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-164) and index.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov. 7, 1991-Feb. 2, 1992.