Sampler

Museum number:
7-3111
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
763 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.374
Description:
sampler; wool, plainweave; silk thread embr.; "Martha Goodson Kidlington March 7th 1833" on lower half, religious homily upper half, all in faded red embroidery; text: "Tis religion that can give sweetest pleasure"; 20.7 x 15.6 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
England
Verbatim coll. place:
Kidlington; England
Culture or time period:
English
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1908
Materials:
Silk, Wool (textile), and Yarn
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Samplers (textile art)
Function:
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sampler, accession number 7-3111, described as sampler; wool, plainweave; silk thread embr.; "Martha Goodson Kidlington March 7th 1833" on lower half, religious homily upper half, all in faded red embroidery; text: "Tis religion that can give sweetest pleasure"; 20.7 x 15.6 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sampler, accession number 7-3111, described as sampler; wool, plainweave; silk thread embr.; "Martha Goodson Kidlington March 7th 1833" on lower half, religious homily upper half, all in faded red embroidery; text: "Tis religion that can give sweetest pleasure"; 20.7 x 15.6 cm.

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