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Mourning sampler
Unknownca. 1850
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Two female angels draped over a tomb with an anchor at the bottom and a leafy tree behind. Lettering at the bottom reads: GRANDMOTHER
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Details
- Title: Mourning sampler
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: ca. 1850
- Type: Mourning sampler
- Rights: Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection
- Medium: Medium: wool, silk and metal-wrapped silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross stitch on plain weave cotton with paired warps and wefts (Penelope canvas)
- Provenance: Ex. coll. Fraser-Martin. Purchased in Exeter, NH, 1922
- Inscribed: Grandmother
- Dimensions: H x W (picture): 29.8 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)H x W (canvas): 33.7 x 45.1 cm (13 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
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