Sampler

Museum number:
7-3113
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
178 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.374
Description:
sampler; cotton ground w/silk embroidery floss in cross stitch; birds, squirrels, floral and geom. designs; white ground, varicolored designs; 51.5 X 25.5 cm. Acc. to Carole Austin (1988) "Motifs are typical of very early English samplers dating as far back as the 16th century. The ground and thread are more typical of much later works. The girl could have been copying an older piece??
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
England
Verbatim coll. place:
England attr.
Culture or time period:
English
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1908
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Silk, 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 7-3113, described as sampler; cotton ground w/silk embroidery floss in cross stitch; birds, squirrels, floral and geom. designs; white ground, varicolored designs; 51.5 X 25.5 cm. Acc. to Carole Austin (1988) "Motifs are typical of very early English samplers dating as far back as the 16th century. The ground and thread are more typical of much later works. The girl could have been copying an older piece??
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sampler, accession number 7-3113, described as sampler; cotton ground w/silk embroidery floss in cross stitch; birds, squirrels, floral and geom. designs; white ground, varicolored designs; 51.5 X 25.5 cm. Acc. to Carole Austin (1988) "Motifs are typical of very early English samplers dating as far back as the 16th century. The ground and thread are more typical of much later works. The girl could have been copying an older piece??

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